"The Step On The Stair" is a romance novel set in England. Edward Quenton Bartholomew had grown up abroad until his parents' death. Now a young man of twenty three and free to make his own way in life, he decided to allay his curiosity about his wealthy uncle, whose exact name he shared, but whom he had never met. Moving back to England, he immediately struck a good rapport with Quenton Sr. and when the old man suddenly became ill, he was keen on his nephew marrying his daughter. All to keep her from being taken advantage of by yet another member of their illustrious family…