Isobel Chace

Lucy went to Jerez to study the Spanish side of her family's sherry business. She learned a lot about the production of sherry - but she didn't think she would ever be able to understand the director, Don Marias del Constantino y Mantero.

Sarah had willingly given up, for the time being, her promising career as an actress, and moved out to Kent to look after her invalid father -- and it didn't seem so much of a sacrifice when it all led to her meeting Robert Chaddox. But that was before everything began to go dreadfully wrong. . .

Rosamund Peyton was looking forward immensely to her stay in Tunisia, where her stepfather was to work on an oil project in the desert, and when Rupert Harringford, the boss of the project, offered the two of them a temporary home in his house, in return for Rosamund's help with the house-keeping, she felt it was altogether a convenient arrangement. However, fascinating as it was to be living in a real Arab house, Rosamund found conditions somewhat primitive; but she gritted her teeth, determined not to be beaten by the inadequacies of an Arab kitchen and marketing in a foreign tongue. But when a glamorous French widow suddenly appeared on the scene, determined to get her elegant claws firmly into Rupert, Rosamund realized that she had a very different kind of battle on her hands!

From being the prim daughter of the Manse, within a few days Kirsty found herself amazingly on the other side of the world, in the Australian Outback, as the wife "in name only' of Andrew Fraser. It was going to be difficult enough to adjust, even before she realized that her husband was in love ...

The Guarded Gates The assignment in Spain was a challenge and Dionis was assured by her sister that her new fiance had the authority to make changes on behalf of the owner. But Don Juan Vicente de Velez y Stebelo knew nothing of the plans to redecorate his villa, as Dionis discovered at their first, eventful meeting. Pay Me Tomorrow Ismay had gone to see Keith Otterbury on a matter pertaining to her sister when he made his preposterous offer. The little she had heard of him hadn't been good, so his offer of marriage to save her family from financial disaster had to be regarded with suspicion. But did she really have any choice in the matter? The Darling Pirate Escaping the unwanted attentions of a suitor, Maggie Jefferson left London for a position in Jersey, in one of the island's luxury hotels. The first person she met was Alain Hautger, who enjoyed a vagabond existence in spite of the earnest efforts of others to reform him. But was he really as carefree as he seemed?

THE EDGE OF BEYOND by Isobel Chace I'll treat you like a woman when you're prepared to behave like one!" were almost the first words Laurence Wilder addressed to Rosalind Janes. How dared he! She thought furiously. All she was doing was to try and help her Aunt Beatrice cope single-handedly with the farm she had been left in Kenya. Well, if Laurence Wilder thought she would accept any help or advice from him now, he could think again! THE GIRL AT SALTBUSH FLAT by Dorothy Cork When Burton Alexander invited Christine to his cattle station in the outback, posing as his fiancee, it suited her to agree -- until she fell in love with him, and then learned that he was planning to marry another girl. Just what was Burton playing at? DESTINY DECREES by Margaret Mann When Coralie found herself in a difficult situation in a foreign country she was only too glad that there was someone competent to come to her rescue. But she was to discover, once she had resigned control of her actions to the masterful Dom Ricardo, that he was in no hurry to relinquish his authority.

The only women who interested Lucien Manners, they told Arabella, were long dead ones - like Cleopatra and Dido and Sappho - none of whom had anything in common with an empty-headed mode girl, far too young for her age, whom Lucien had described as a "street arab". Arabella had better stop thinking about him...

It all happened when Ruth Arnold intercepted a letter from Mario Verdecchio to the sister Pearl, inviting Pearl -- presumably with ulterior motives to visit him in Sicily and Ruth decided to teach him a lesson and go herself and instead. But it was Ruth, alas, who got rather more than she bargained for!

“My career is ended. I won’t play again.” Libby MacPherson had been a brilliant pianist until a car accident damaged her hand and put an end to her concert career. She wasn’t qualified to do anything else, so the advertisement for a music teacher to instruct an exceptional young boy had seemed like a heaven-sent opportunity. She had applied immediately. But the job was full of surprises. Certainly living on a desert ranch, married to the boy’s uncle had been the last thing she expected!

Roman Summer by Jane Arbor Teaching an attractive teenager to love Rome didn't seem a particularly arduous job. — But for Ruth it meant having to fight her old attraction to Erie Nash, who had said, "The folly of marriage is a heady, distracting adventure I don't mean to afford". The Flamboyant Tree by Isobel Chace Frances Whitney had read an article about the self-help villages of Tanzania, where the population worked together in a kind of co-operative for their mutual benefit, and before anyone could stop her she had volunteered to go to one of these villages as a doctor. At Nguyu they had been expecting a male doctor. "You won't last ten minutes," Simon Abbott told her. She would show him! Black Niall by Mary Wibberley Everything was going wrong for Alison. Her job was in jeopardy, and she was going to have to sell her beloved family home to a stranger. As if that wasn't enough, Niall MacBain had come home; Niall, her arch-enemy, whom she had not seen for nine years but for whom she still felt nothing but hatred.

There is no part of Africa with more potentialities than Kenya, and when Penelope inherited a farm there she was confident that she could run it single-handed. Her neighbor, Paul Conway, declared that she couldn't--which only made her all the more determined to prove him wrong!

When her uncle was reported missing in Kenya, Annot was persuaded by her mother to go there in search of him. Annot wasn't very enthusiastic about the idea. She would have been even less enthusiastic if she had realized that the overbearing James Montgomery was going to take charge of the whole affair!

Domenico Manzu was like no one else she had ever met, and Deborah hadn't the remotest idea how to cope with him. If she'd heeded her father's warning, she'd never have come to Rome. Now, here she was, virtually kidnapped, yet treated like a guest. Domenico was a very charming villain. But Debbie knew that while he had captured her person, she'd be a fool if she allowed him to capture her heart! Yet, ridiculous as it was, she wanted to stay....