**It was time to live for herself** Brooke had held the family together ever since her mother's death, putting off her own dreams for the sake of her father, younger brother and sister. So when her sister, staying at a chateau in France to upgrade her French before university, developed a crush on the chateau's owner and decided to stay, it was only natural that Brooke should rush to the rescue. And it was also only natural that Brooke, naive and inexperienced with men, after meeting the handsome worldly Jourdain Marchais, should fall in love with him herself!