That chance meeting, even in its first moments touched by a strange enchantment, led Silver Trevanny and Anthony Frenton to drama all unsuspected that quiet October afternoon. There was nothing to warn Silver of the day, so near, when she would watch the last of the Trevanny ships limp home, a wreck, to the old ship yard, bringing Anthony Frenton and his party to stay at Harbour House; nothing to warn of the trap that was being laid to snare her into marriage; nor any inkling of the shadow of crme about to fall upon her beloved Peter, a shadow made all the deeper by the innocent intervention of Anthony Frenton. Drinking tea with him in a prosaic bakery in the High Street, she only knew that her heart was singing with a wild new.
Alice Nina Conarain was born in Dublin, Ireland. She married Mr. Hoysradt. She worked as a nurse, secretary-receptionist, and staff member of the Daily News in London, England, UK. She started publishing romance novels in 1930s at Mills & Boon under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Hoy, she also wrote as Nina Conarain at Arcadia House. She wrote over 70 romance novels from 1933 to 1980.