A Prologue to Love

A woman- rich beyond imagining- whose inability to give or accept love, whose fear of poverty and hostility towards the world bring in its wake tragedy and unhappiness for almost all whose lives she touches. Caroline Ames was detested by the father she worshiped. An unscrupulous businessman, John Ames denied Caroline not only his love, but instilled in her a horror of poverty and a faith in the power of money which was to make her the richest woman in the world- and one of the loneliest.