Arlee Beecher is a wild spirit living bohemian ways. Billy B. Hill is attracted to Arlee but believes she needs a strong hand to make her understand how a proper girl should act. He finds the transformation to be a more difficult task than expected and perhaps not as necessary as he first believed. Mary Hastings Bradley was a traveler and author of mysteries, travel books, short fiction and novels. She wrote The Palace of Darkened Windows and The Fortieth Door after traveling to Egypt detailing the life of the veiled and secluded women of Egypt. She was a war correspondent for Colliers Magazine in 1945 reporting on women in the military in Italy, France, and Germany.