Hari Morgan's father died leaving her a sick mother, the tools of his shoemaking business and the gift of designing and making shoes that were stylish and different Spoiled, pettish Emily Grenfell resented Hari's beauty and courage but was delighted with the slippers she made her for the Race Ball and a lifetime's friendship and rivalry developed, while between the two women lay a source of even greater tension, Emily's cousin Craig Grenfell