It is 1938 and headstrong eighteen-year-old Mari Carrera leaves a gossipy small town in rural New Zealand aboard the SS Rimutaka. Rather too careless with her reputation, Mari is bound for the bustling anonymity of London--but she is all too williing to be seduced by the temptations of the glittering West End. Until war comes and snatches it all away. --Page 4 of cover.