Books like The Tryst by Grace Livingston Hill

During her wedding, Sherrill Cameron discovers her fiancé’s secretary will walk down the aisle instead. A handsome stranger named Graham Copeland offers comfort, but a stolen emerald necklace raises doubts about his true intentions.

After losing her family, a seventeen‑year‑old orphan named Elizabeth flees from a Montana wilderness to Philadelphia, pursued by a killer, while her faith, horse, and two pistols become her only allies.

Two bachelor brothers, David and Joseph, live on an old farm until a city‑raised sister, adopted by an aunt, arrives and reveals their kinship, bringing faith, love and renewal to their home and village.

An 1914 romance following Effie Martin’s struggle between a tomboy lifestyle and conventional womanhood, leading to friendship and personal growth with football hero Lawrence Earle.

Paige Madison, a war veteran, seeks a new career with a prominent businessman, only to confront an unscrupulous boss and the advances of both the boss’s daughter and a minister’s daughter, forcing a painful choice based on faith and love.

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Patty Merrill leaves home after a family dispute, seeks independence, and finds an unexpected companionship with a fellow refugee. A distant nephew also eschews wealth, all guided by a promise of a divine tryst that reshapes their lives.

With four younger siblings to support as well as her invalid mother, since her father died unexpectedly the previous year, Shirley was really up against it. Her tiny secretary's salary could only afford rent for a house that was too small and located in an area with excessive heat, traffic, and pollution. To compound the problems she had been served notice that the family must move in a few weeks. This is why a large stone barn outside the city, in a spacious natural setting with cool, fresh air seemed so inviting. The barn's owner, Sidney, was also up against it in trying to get the barn not only in a habitable, but also in a truly homelike and comfortable state without appearing to be offering charity nor compelling an increase in rent. Shirley completely refused charity of any kind, but was so completely conscientious and loyal in her work, at times jeopardizing her own safety and even risking her life, that abundant help came her way in many forms, leading eventually to property ownership that guaranteed lifetime security for her family. Along the way she taught Sidney the meaning of inner wealth, which is what he really wanted rather than the haughty, condescending, shallow, superficial, undeserving hypocrisy of some of his rich acquaintances. His curiousity about how someone could really live in a barn came to be richly rewarded. Shirley found that her daring bravery in attempting actual life in a barn was also richly rewarded. As she and Sidney discovered what real wealth was, it wasn't only the barn that was enchanted.