Nora Jordan saw happiness not in mutual love, but in wealth and power over men. This mistake in choosing life guidelines led her - could not help but lead her! - to a fatal outcome. And Sam Cameron, through whose eyes the reader will see the world of the novel and the characters inhabiting this world, will find his happiness. But not with the insidious charmer Nora, but with her antipode - with Fern Dolson, who he sees as a girl from the good past and at the same time - from the future. Help them, God, to maintain mutual feelings until the end of their days. Both deserve it. The reader will certainly agree with this, having gone along with the characters through all the twists and turns of this intense, criminally tinged narrative.