Not Under the Law

Joyce Radway lives with her aunt's family under strict rules. She is preparing for her final exams in order to become a teacher. She leaves the house without permission to go to school, but on her way she walks in on a gang of thieves. Joyce escapes and gets pursued by the criminals so she leaves town, and her family believes that she is kidnapped and accuses the local baseball legend Darcy Sherwood. The search for Joyce reveals some other mysteries going under the law.

Grace Livingston Hill was an early 20th-century novelist and wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. She wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories and her characters are most often young female Christian women or those who become so within the confines of the story. Hill's messages are simple in nature: good versus evil. As Hill believed that the Bible was very clear about what was good and evil in life and had firm faith God's ability to restore everything, the same belief was also reflected in her own works. Even today Hill's novels are widely read and appreciated for their romance and their inspiring life lessons.