A New York stenographer of romantic notions marries a handsome stranger against every warning and finds out who he is afterwards, in a cabin in the Carolina mountains. Dixon was a lawyer and Baptist minister whose novel The Clansman glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Griffith's The Birth of a Nation - a fact the reader should have in hand. This 1915 book is a melodrama of marriage and drugs, and the same certainties are underneath it.

Thomas Dixon, Jr. (1864-1946) was an American minister and novelist. He served as a Baptist pastor in North Carolina and later in New York City before turning to writing. His body of work includes The Foolish Virgin (1915) and other novels of the Reconstruction South.