About the book: 2002 / Helen Littleton's first meeting with Lionel Hartford almost ended in tragedy. The girl came to his house, armed with her father’s old pistol, to defend the honor of her younger sister, “seduced and abandoned.” An accidental shot, a stray bullet, a wound in the shoulder... Nothing foreshadowed a successful outcome to this story. And they both so needed a happy turn in their destinies! How the English writer Vanessa Fitch coped with the task, readers will find out by following the plot of this love story from the first to the last page.