A Reliable Wife
This book is a remarkable characterization of what it's like to love and not be loved in return. Ralph Truitt has this problem until he meets Catherine Land, a woman of many talents who answers his advertisement for a "reliable wife." When Catherine arrives to Ralph's town (literally, he owns it), he gets more or less than he bargained for upon discovering she is not the woman he agreed to marry. However, this does not stop his infatuation. Ralph is intr...