In this fast-paced and thoroughly gripping story, we meet two criminals, the appositely named Moon and Sky, without being given any indication originally of what their crime has been. We get to know them and begin to understand them only gradually as we see them through the eyes of Linda Maddison, a young and innocent secretary to a bank official. The crimes they commit against Linda are certainly real and reprehensible enough—but the thoughtful reader will want to know what forces drove them to this desperate fugitive state, and may also ask himself if they are really any more evil than Paul Cook, the eminently respectable bank security officer who “merely” wants to cheat on his wife and enjoy the delights of Linda's blossoming body without the formality of marrying her. Certainly Linda undergoes torment, humiliation and shame. She loses her original innocence—but finds it replaced by experience and wisdom that perhaps is considerably more worthwhile. In the end, her ideas about the law, and its underlying moral and ethical foundation, have changed entirely, but she is a new and better person thereby: at one and the same time more sensual and more sensible. She has, through her undeniably shocking and degrading experiences, acquired a sounder and healthier perspective on her own life and the world around her.