Beyond Her Control (Harlequin Romance, No 2850)

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Summary: A very good read
Review: Brook Farrington took over the care of her family after her gentle mother dies. Brook's father and her twin sister and brother don't seem to care that Brook has given up her young life
to care for her family.
So When Stephanie wants to go with a friend to France so she can speak French better Brooks talks their father into letting Stephanie go.
Then Brook gets a letter from Stephanie saying she has decided to drop school and stay with her friends uncle Jourdain Marchais.
Because Alec her father is trying to get a better job Brook takes the problem on her head.
She calls the Marchais home to try to reason with Jourdain.
Jourdain thinks Brook is being old fashion.
Brook goes to France to talk to Stephanie into coming home.
Stephanie won't cooperate, but she does treaten to take her own life, and latter she fakes an illness.
When Brook finally gets Jourdain to see she is right, he has his own ideas about how to break Stephanie's crush on him.
Jourdain soon sees that Brook has been taken avantage by everyone in her household, and he wants to be the one to help Brook. Jourdain falls madly in love with Brook, and when she learns she is in love with Jourdain she trys to denigh it.
But Jourdain soon has Brook right he wants her, he uses Stephanie's illness to keep Brook in France.