When Commander Roger Merlin offers to buy Eve’s inheritance, Treloan Manor in Georgia, the answer is strictly no. She has not even set eyes of the place yet, and she has different plans altogether. Eve wants to turn it into a hotel, which would also make her his competition. What could be more thrilling? The love story dating back to the 20th century was written under one of Ida Pollock’s pseudonyms, Susan Barrie.