An Interrupted Night

An Interrupted Night opens with Grace Livingston Hill's affectionate tribute to Isabella M. Alden, "Pansy," a beloved Christian author whose real life of work, prayer, family devotion, and practical faith gave her fiction its warmth and power. Framed by memory, gratitude, and the testimony of a woman who cherished the books of her youth, the story is introduced as a wholesome, morally vivid tale drawn from ordinary life and spiritual struggle. At its center is Mary Dunlap, a disciplined speaker and writer whose delayed train and disrupted plans lead her into an unsettling mystery. While traveling, she notices a young married couple whose strained, fearful behavior suggests a hidden crisis. Her concern deepens when she finds herself stranded overnight and later encounters the same tension in a crowded hotel, where the woman's distress and the man's controlling manner hint at deception and danger. As Mary presses the truth, she reveals her earlier rescue of Daisy from the manipulative Rufus Keller, a man now exposed in a new identity. But Daisy—or Marguerite Sheldon—furiously rejects the warning, convinced Mary is an impostor or blackmailer. Caught between delusion and truth, the characters move through a tense drama of providence, conscience, maternal love, and the hope that faith may yet break through self-deception. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.