Nurse Avril Gardner had one great ambition, to become a Gold Medallist, even if it meant losing her friends and rejecting the love of Dr Dickon Bartlett. She knew she was right, especially when the handsome new Registrar agreed with her. Before long she found herself falling in love with him.

Isabel Cameron has taken a job for six months at the Cadiz, a luxury hotel in Majorca. She had accepted the position, as a nurse to the residents and staff, rather hurriedly, anxious to leave the London hospital where she'd been working, and her unhappy love affair with Jason Chandos, the surgical registrar. Majorca was not going to offer any emotional complications, she told herself firmly. But that was before she met Biff Squires on the plane - and before she had treated her first patient, the dark impressive Sebastian Garcia.

This 1927 novel by Oppenheim revisits the plot device of a young man who comes into a large fortune suddenly and explores the class differences between the lower middle, and the upper class. In South America, a young Englishman steals the wife, baby girl, and money of two contemptible criminals. 15 years later, they come to England intent on revenge. In Norfolk, a young leather salesman, Martin Barnes, is wandering the streets late at night, when he is drawn into a mysterious and imposing house. While there, he is given a huge fortune by Lord Ardrington who is dying, and who wishes to disinherit his undeserving nephew. Suddenly wealthy, Martin begins to experience a change of attitude and inclination. He becomes a sudden snob, turning his nose up at his former friends and quickly abandoning (with cause) his fiancé. Returning to London, Martin meets Gerald Garnham, the disinherited nephew of Lord Ardrington, and Lady Blanche Banningham, beautiful, athletic, bohemian, and sympathetic. How will Martin handle his new fortune? Will the two evil men succeed in revenge against Ardrington and his adopted daughter. Will Martin find love, or even acceptance by society?