Margaret Pedler

[from inside dj flap] Raine Sherwood and her friends had always had everything they wanted, and they took it for granted that the world would continue indefinitely to revolve around them. Nothing was more important than the next night's party or the next day's hunting.

But on one particular crisp November morning, more than "good hunting weather" occupied Raine's thoughts. Grif Buchanan, a stranger returned from military service in India, joined the meet that day. He was officiously guarded by his hostess, Patricia Wyndham; but he showed enough interest in Raine to provoke Trevor Beaumont's jealousy. "Beau" had grown up with Raine and her brother Timmy, and had been in love with Raine for years. Grif represented a different world -- a world he knew was about to explode into war, something none of these people believed or understood.

This is a provocative story of a girl who faced a new situation with characteristic insouciance -- and who found this time that the attitude didn't fit. In a world at war, Raine grew up; and the qualities which two men loved in her were not enough for happiness until she understood her own heart.