That Man Is Mine

the long version

Valentine Loring was, as her name implied, a most romantic person. She was also completely unpredictable. But Ted Morrison did not know this. Since most of the customers in his bookshop quietly went out of his life after the usual exchange of cash for a volume, he had no idea of the havoc Val could wreak until he found himself with an unusual partner—namely Val—a sensational window display, a stock of books that wounded his sensitive literary taste, and, incidentally, a successful business. Ted could not help but be pleased until it dawned on him that he was no longer master of his own destiny either at home or in his shop. But it was true that Val had brought new life into the dusty bookstore—and its bookish owner!