About the book: 1995 / Alice Marlowe, a charming young woman and antiques expert, receives a simple trinket as a gift from the boy she rescued from the ocean. This begins a chain of dangerous adventures for her. Alice takes part in a risky operation to capture criminals involved in theft of works of art. A generous reward awaits her, but the biggest reward for Alice is a meeting with the young lawyer Rand, a business acquaintance with whom turns into love..