The plot of the novel by the famous American writer Shirley Busby is built on exciting intrigue and is read with unflagging interest. The feelings of its main characters. Melissa Seymour and Dominic Slade, brought together as a result of a tragicomic misunderstanding, are developing and growing stronger as a result of the difficult trials that befell them. Love and hatred, generosity and deceit, nobility and betrayal - almost the entire spectrum of human virtues and vices passes before the reader, who until the last pages of the work is eagerly awaiting the outcome of the chain of interconnected events.