This volume contains two novels dealing with the life of prairie people in the town of Askatoon in the far West.

'The World for Sale' and the latter portion of 'The Money Master' deal with the same life, and 'The Money Master' contained some of the characters to be found in 'Wild Youth'.

'The World for Sale' also was a picture of prairie country with strife between a modern Anglo-Canadian town and a French-Canadian town in the West.

These books are of the same people; but 'You Never Know Your Luck' and 'Wild Youth' have several characters which move prominently through both.
In the introduction to 'The World for Sale' in this series, I drew a description of prairie life, and I need not repeat what was said there.
'In You Never Know Your Luck' there is a Proem which describes briefly the look of the prairie and suggests characteristics of the life of the people.

The basis of the book has a letter written by a wife to her husband at a critical time in his career when he had broken his promise to her.