Waylaid enroute by bandits, she is forced at gun point to marry a tall, enigmatic stranger, Drex Hamilton. When Kay learns Drex is a U.S. secret agent, she agrees to continue the masquerade of adoring bride to help him foil an international plot against our country.How this thrilling adventure taught Kay which man she truly loved is the basis of another of Emilie Loring's great novels of mystery, glamour, and romance.

    In a rural corner of England the vagaries of war bring together a group of people wrestling the enemy within--fear, despair, loss of faith.A web of chance... a fateful meeting in a London street... A lost teddy bear... the wrong train... and the lives of four people were altered forever! A shy, middle-aged spinster was to find a new home and fall impossibly in love. An elderly street fiddler, bitter and lonely, was to take an unexpected train ride and encounter kindness from a total stranger. Two frightened children were to escape ther terrors of wartime London and bring dramatic changes to the Castle on the Hill.

    The narrator, Evelyn, recalls the series of experiences during childhood summers at Donegal, which led to his perception of the world as an adult.