The Mahjong Huntress

Mary Elizabeth Riley is to marry Sir Charles Gilbertworth on the eve of her 21st birthday. She is reluctant, as the wedding has been preordained, but she does not feel that this is the right time, place, or man for her future husband. She, like a growing number of women of her era, wants to pursue her dreams, and being a housewife is not her ultimate dream.

Just before the ceremony, the groom goes missing. Mary Elizabeth does not really care, but the fact is that Gilbertworth has disappeared from her family estate, and if he is not found, her mother, the widow Riley, may be blamed.