This volume contains some of his most enchanting tales describing peoples’ actions due to love:-

• The quiet honeymoon of a young couple interrupted by an unexpected visitors (A Happy Voyage).
  


• An unexpected visit to a lightship by a newly married bride (Visitors at Gunnel Rock), inspired by the original Sevenstones Lightship anchored off Scilly.


• Two mens’ actions to attempt protect the reputation of an innocent wife whose life could be ruined through no fault of her own (For The Love of Naomi ).
  The love of a woman for a new arrival in the village and the tragic consequences (Joseph Laquedum).

Q’s works of fiction can be categorised as adventure, romance or proto-feminist and he was very keen on ensuring we never forget the lives of maligned women and girls as demonstrated by his wonderful factional biography of Hetty Wesley, one of the sisters of John and Charles Wesley which is included in this series of anthologies and collections.