Love Made the Choice

To Antonia, drama was something that happened to other people -- until theday when the pleasant prosperity she had always known was abruptly sweptaway, and she had to face the appalling fact that her own father was acriminal. She felt that the only thing she could do in the circumstances wasto leave home and make a new life for herself -- and that was how she came toknow the impressive, magnificent but faintly mysterious Maximilian Shaw, whogave her a job but then swept her, willy-nilly, into a series of adventuresthat neither of them could have foreseen.