Nerina Hilliard

Th author responds to the myth that Claude Eatherly was a symbol of a guilt-ridden America.

When Trina Meriton first went to work in Andrew Dalwin's big country house not far from Sydney, she wondered why there were no photographs of him about. As soon as she set eyes on him she knew the reason. His face had been badly scarred in an accident. As she grew to know him better she realised that the episode had marked him in more ways than one, for it had left him convinced that women were selfish and worthless and that all who appeared interested in him were only after his money. So it came about that when Trina, herself recovering from an unhappy affair, found that she was falling in love with Andrew, she had before her an exceptionally difficult task in overcoming his suspicion and distrust.

Christine felt very strongly about Julian Galveston, who appeared to have nothing better to do with his time than break up her sister's marriage. So Christine decided to tackle him on the subject--and found herself getting into very deep waters.

Carefree, content, young Kerry Derwin wanted life to go on forever just the way it was. To Kerry, love was a lot of nonsense. Certainly she wasn't interested in marrying and settling down. And every one in the village knew it. So she wasn't very pleased at the upheaval caused by the arrival of a film unit making a movie on the moors. As for the star of the film, Paul Devron, he was conceited and a confirmed ladies' man. Kerry had no intention of adding herself to his long list of conquests. But that, of course, was before she actually met Paul Devron...

Laurel was only too pleased to give up schoolteaching in grey, cold England for a while and go out to spend an extended holiday with her brother on the little island of Ladrana, off Portuguese East Africa. She arrived on the island, however, to discover that nearly everyone there, her brother included, seemed bent on arranging a marriage for her - with, of all the unlikely people, Landrana's forbidding overlord, Stephen Barrington! The whole thing was the more ridiculous as both the people concerned, Laurel and Stephen, had not the slightest interest in the project - not, that is, until Stephen's former love, the glamorous Roberta Fransom, turned up, and Laurel had to acknowledge her true feelings, The dignified thing to do seemed to be to retreat, leaving Roberta in triumphant possession - but Laurel was made of sterner stuff .. .

Although they were engaged, Terry Morgan would not marry Kay Sheridan until he had uncovered his past. He must find his unknown mother and discover her origins. The search led Kay and Terry into the vast unknown Sahara, to a new way of life among the strange, wild Tuareg tribe -- and also to a new love for Kay. But what was she going to do about Terry?

"Love comes swiftly, at first meeting. There is an attraction that grows undeniably stronger until it is a fire inside. You do not believe in love like that?" Morgana Carol never had been in love like that, and, hearing Felipe's words, she knew that now she never could be, that even if such a love did come her way, she must somehow find the strength to withstand it. A lovely tropical island provides the background to this poignant story of a nurse who, knowing that the future could not give her the same things as it did to others, found herself in the very situation she wished to avoid.