I, Victoria Strange — Ruth Willock

Young, intelligent, attractive to men, and an heiress -- what more could life hold in store for Victoria Strange? But for six weeks, until she is twenty-one, she must be careful, for under the will of her father, just killed in a plane accident, a large part of her fortune does not come to her before her birthday, and her relatives who are next heirs are grasping intriguers.

Victoria decides to leave New York at once without telling even her lawyer where she is bound. She flies to remote Iceland, only to feel she is being followed. After an accidental -- or was it? -- dunking in an icy harbor, she flees in haste to Scotland, hoping to hide out in the tiny Highland village of Murdoch, where once she had spent happy days with her parents.

For a time she finds peace and even romance, in the person of a young Canadian journalist, Neil Hallyard. Then strange mishaps begin to occur. Victoria learns that her trusted lawyer in New York has died mysteriously, and a man in a big car passes through Murdoch at dead of night. Have her enemies found her out? Is Neil the friend he seems to be, or is he, too, after her fortune?

In a highly dramatic twist, Victoria returns to New York where her fate must be decided.