Carson Catherine Carson 
Through the Garden Gate or the Girl Next Door 

Lorrie Belmont has known Iain Maxwell all her life as their parents have lived next door to each since before she was born. She was an only child and was seven years younger than the boy next door and had always considered him the big brother she never hadthat is until she reached her teens and realised that her feelings went way, way beyond brotherly love. Iain’s younger sister Hannah was the same age as Lorrie and he had watched over them as a big brother should; but after an incident when Lorrie was eighteen he fought to keep his feelings in check and on a brotherly level. Lorrie was resigned to always being the girl next door and Iain stubbornly stuck to his principals that it was wrong for them to be anything other than good neighbours.