Skipper shares his parent's boarding house with their lodgers, lovely Janet the bijou beauty and Senor Franklin, the volcanic literary genius. Life is sweet, until one night the lugubrious Mr Marvel seeks shelter with them. Who is the mysterious fugitive and what dark secret haunts him? Skipper sets out to solve the riddle. But then the astonishing Dorothy Clark arrives and his life is thrown into turmoil. Skipper falls hopelessly in love and plans a grand seduction. He'll stop at nothing. But Dorothy is saving herself for Jesus... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.