Hungry Heart

by Arlene Hale

One shattering night turned Lisa Larsen's life from a song of love into heartbreaking blues. Without warning, handsome Ross Hunter told Lisa that theirs had only been a "fun romance" and now it was over. Long ago, Lisa had seen her father abandon her mother and herself, and now that bitter childhood memory returned as Lisa vowed never again to trust a man. But she could not stop from pouring her feelings into the music she created as pianist in an elegant supper club--and more than one man responded. Fellow musician Pete Bartley pleaded to be more than her best friend. Wealthy Dan Evans asked Lisa to share everything in his life except the secret he refused to reveal. Then suddenly Ross himself returned, demanding another chance to win the love of the woman who had sworn to forget him.

Paperback

First published December 1, 1977

About the author

MARY ARLENE HALE (1924-1982) wrote more than 100 books under pseudonyms Arlene Hale, Gail Everett, Louise Christopher, and Lynn Williams. She lived in New London, Iowa, the youngest of four surviving children. Her father died when she was about seven years old when he slipped on ice while carrying a shotgun. Shortly after graduating from high school in 1941, she worked for the Iowa-Illinois Telephone Co., and on a factory assembly line during World War II. Initially she began writing poetry, and had some success with this, then wrote her first book in 1948 and became a full-time novelist in 1954, at the age of 30. She never married and lived with her mother until her death, of cancer, at age 57.