The Crash

When both her father and mother pass away within a few months of each other, vivacious pert Clem Wright suddenly finds herself all alone in the world without a real friend to turn to. She takes a job, becoming personal assistant to the brilliant osteopath, Charles Maddison - and soon her troubles are forgotten as she finds herself swept away in a fountain of bliss. For three wonderful months she is wined and dined by her charming superior, and nothing seems impossible; so the news, when she hears it, is just too much. Unexpectedly Charles is getting married to Lisa - a high-fashion mode girll - he met while holidaying abroad. It seems like the end of happiness for poor Clem: can life really be so cruel? After Charles married the flirty beautiful model, Clem had married another man on the rebound. Clem never thought she'd see Dr. Charles Maddison again. They had gone their separate ways, but she had never stopped loving Charles. Clem could not have foreseen the disaster that threw her and Charles together again--the air crash that left her a widow and Charles' wife crippled. She was caught up in the three-way battle for emotional survival--caught between he love for Charles and being an unwilling participant in Lisa's scheme of marital infidelity....

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.