Doris Fletcher was not a man-hater at all. She just learned from her own experience that men cannot be trusted. Or rather, the experience was not her own, but that of her best friend Maggie. She trusted her husband Steve, but he turned out to be a charlatan and a deceiver. It all ended with Meg's tragic death. Doris swore that she would never allow herself or anyone else to become a victim of such crooks, she would make every effort to expose their true essence. And fate gave her such a “deceiver” in the person of Neville Smiles...

Note 2020: Published in Russian under the pseudonym Lauryn Butler, but by Penny Jordan.