Grace Livingston Hill 
Homing 

Jane Scarlett is alone. She has no family, no friends, and no home. Destitute, living in a dingy back room in a boarding house, Jane struggles to survive—and to find hope. Then, through a set of unexpected circumstances, she meets Audrey Havenner and gradually begins to believe that life isn’t as grim as she had thought.
But it isn’t until she meets Audrey’s handsome lawyer brother that Jane suddenly finds her life turned completely upside down.