Classic fiction

Not Under the Law

by Grace Livingston Hill

336 pages · First published 1925

After her aunt’s death, Joyce Radway finds herself treated as an unpaid servant by relatives who expect her to surrender her plans for independence. She leaves after being forbidden to take teacher examinations and accidentally witnesses graveyard bootleggers, including a childhood acquaintance whose involvement in crime has consequences for them both. Joyce builds a remarkably independent new life while criminals pursue her and people back home come to believe she has been murdered. Grace Livingston Hill combines romance, Christian conversion, Prohibition-era danger, and a resourceful heroine whose escape from an oppressive household becomes the beginning of genuine self-sufficiency.