A young teacher from a wealthy American family is trying to save her father from bankruptcy. Contradictions tear her apart: a marriage of convenience, essentially a thinly veiled self-sale, or the shame and collapse of the entire family. The heroine is torn before a choice. What will win - a sense of duty or a deal with conscience? Unexpected passion, and then love, puts everything in its place...

Note 2020. Published under the pseudonym Frieda Mitchell, but author Helen Brooks.