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There are few individuals who have not experienced an occasion where they were apt to question something about their own behavior. Deluged with a mountain of magazine and newspaper articles, books, and television programs dealing with various facets of human behavior, we are likely to sift through this information or that, trying to learn where we fit on the so-called curve of normalcy. Unfortunately, conflicting opinions and data leave us with lingering doubts.
And, as in this novel, when those doubts are brought into the open and challenged, concern over normalcy can lead one to take drastic measures. Such is the fate which confronts Vanessa Ridgeway. She finds her norm challenged by a very different way of life.
NIECE IN BONDAGE provides another way of life not only for Vanessa Ridgeway but for those of us who might be searching for something new. It is an entertaining story which may hold valuable lessons for a large portion of our diverse population.
Vanessa Ridgeway leaned back on the dark velvet upholstery of the train seat and watched the vast stretches of plains form an endless band of gold outside the window. She drummed her fingers on the armrest and then, aware of her nervous gesture, stopped as suddenly as she had started. She had no reason to be nervous. In fact, she was quite fortunate not to have been left all alone in the world after her mother’s death. Yet it was all so strange in a way. . . the letter from the lawyers, the ticket, the offer of a home from an uncle she had never met.
She opened her purse and, for perhaps the hundredth time since her mother’s funeral, she took out the envelope and withdrew the letter.
Fictional reading for entertainment purposes only.
Note: This story is the same as catalog number BH-8065 in the original publications (a duplicate).