The valiant determination of a wealthy young girl to lead her own life brings her face to face with dangerous reality and an unexpected kind of love. Grace Livingston Hill was an early 20th-century novelist who wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories. Hill's messages are simple in nature: good versus evil. As Hill believed the Bible was very clear about what was good and evil in life, she reflected that design in her own works. She wrote about a variety of different subjects, almost always with a romance worked into the message and often essential to the return to grace on the part of one or several characters.