Comprising of two short novellas, <i>The Patient at Peacock's Hall</i> and <i>Safer than Love</i>, <i>No Love Lost</i> is a thrilling work of suspense. <br><br>In <i>The Patient at Peacock's Hall</i> a young female doctor, struggling to save the life of her rival in love, is threatened by a cunning madman, driven to his madness by the woman Dr Ann Fowler is caring for. In <i>Safer than Love</i> Elizabeth Lane marries a safe and secure headmaster to escape a more dangerous love, but finds husband's body stuffed down a well - and herself as the chief suspect.