Comprising of two short novellas, The Patient at Peacock's Hall and Safer than Love, No Love Lost is a thrilling work of suspense. In The Patient at Peacock's Hall 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 Safer than Love 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.