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An ancient feud marred their love. When Fiona moved with her father and brother to Trimor Lodge in the Scottish Highlands, life seemed perfect. Their new home was breathtakingly beautiful heather-covered hills, deep wooded glens and sparkling lochs. Fiona's happiness was complete when she met Iain Cameron, her new neighbor. He was everything she wanted in a man. She was attracted to him right from the start - and he to her. But it was a love that was doomed a century before it started!

When Melanie went out to the romantic tropical island of Mindoa, in the Indian Ocean, she was little more than a schoolgirl, both in years and in lack of experience of life. When she left only eight months later she had become a woman. What was responsible for the change? Partly it was Mindoa itself, exotic and glamorous and utterly unlike anything Melanie had encountered before; perhaps it was the people she met - the small but cosmopolitan white colony, living together but all so different from each other. But most of all it was the masterful Stephen Brent who brought about such a transformation in the quiet English girl - Stephen, between whom and Melanie there was such a gulf of years and worldly experience, yet against whose magnetic attraction she had not a chance to defend herself.

Here is a hospital story with a difference, for it is set on an island near the Burma coast where a white doctor and two nurses, with a native staff and few facilities, waged a never-ending war against tropical diseases, parasites and an utterly exhausting climate. Pat, recently out from England, and not very experienced, would have found it hard going in any case; but it was made much tougher by the fact that Dr. Mark Bradlaw seemed to find her intensely irritating, and even sometimes carried his disapproval to the point of reprimanding her in front of the patients. And as if that was not enough to bear, the beautiful widow with whom his name had been linked turned up in Pengola and began to throw her weight about in a ladylike but thoroughly determined way.

The inheritance of the fruit farm in Central Otago meant a way out for Jeannie Fraser, an escape for her young brother and sister and herself from dependence on their mean and cruel stepfather. Now they were free! Or were they? Would their stepfather let the children go? Jeanie took no chances and virtually kidnapped them. Soon they were all happily settled at Strathlachan, and Jeannie even found her initial dislike for the manager, Fergus MacGregor, beginning to turn to the very opposite. But always there was the fear that their stepfather would track them down. Yet it was not their stepfather who found them, but the beautiful, unscrupulous Cecily Chalmers, who knew all about Jeannie’s past and was quite prepared to use it as a threat to win Fergus for herself ...

No girl deliberately gets involved with a married man, and when Prudence Sinclair found herself falling in love with Godfrey Simmonds, whose marriage was in difficulties, to do them justice they both made up their minds to end the affair. The chance for Prudence to take over the running of a guest house for tourists in New Zealand's breathtakingly beautiful Fiordland was just the thing she needed to help her build a new life for herself, without Godfrey. Unfortunately there was a partner in the enterprise - her cousin-by-marriage Hugo Macallister, who could never forget - or forgive - the circumstances of their first meeting. That meeting had been the occasion of Prudence's farewell to Godfrey, but how could she ever convince Hugo that he had completely misunderstood the situation, or make him ever trust her again?

Loraine and her father had never been very close, and it was therefore astonishing to discover after his death that he had been greatly concerned about her and had appointed a guardian for herself and her affairs. She wished he had chosen someone a little less problematical than a remote sort of cousin living in Paris and had little doubt the cousin wished that too. Since he could not come to England himself, her guardian summoned Loraine to Paris, and she found herself abruptly transferred from the relative seclusion of an English boarding-school to the heady atmosphere of Paris in May. At the age of eighteen she was not likely to resent that, and from the moment she stepped off the train at the Gare du Nord, she was tinglingly aware of a subtle excitement in the air which belongs solely to Paris. Her only concern was her unknown guardian and his plans for her, but it was through him she found a dazzling career in the world of fashion -and also the love of her life.

A practised gallant with a thread of iron somewhere — that was how Juliet defined Ramiro de Velasco y Cuevora at their first meeting. It was obvious that he could only marry someone of his own kind, an aristocratic, purebred Spaniard. Juliet was sure that when she returned from Spain to England, the memory of him would haunt her always; but she could not bring herself to wish that they had never met.

When Leonie Creighton was chosen as Claire Elstone's companion on a voyage to Australia, she knew that the whole purpose of the journey was to separate Claire from a young man of whom her father disapproved. So it was a considerable shock to her to find, the first night out, that this very young man was aboard too in the capacity of Assistant Surgeon -- and that he didn't seem to be quite the villain that Sir James had pictured. Leonie was extremely worried as to what to do; and she had troubles of her own as well, connected with the Senior Surgeon, who had, it seemed, thought her a silly little flirt in her hospital days and did not seem prepared to revise his opinion now. But when an emergency arose on board, it was to Leonie that he turned for extra help in the ship's hospital, and so began for her a happiness that was not to end with the voyage but to last "for ever and ever".

“I suppose Morocco is a better place than most for a plunge into the passionate unknown. It's a pity girls of your age have such a lack of judgment and knowledge. The Barbary moon plays tricks," said Andrew Barran scathingly to Carolyn, who knew he was referring to her relationship with Leo Morgan. The trouble was that, because of something in the past, Carolyn was not at liberty to explain that Leo meant nothing in her life at all. The only man who did was standing there before her - and she knew without any doubt whatever that her feelings for him were no trick of the Barbary moon.

He disliked the girl he thought she was The idea of impersonating her stepsister hadn't seemed so bad back in Johannesburg. But here in Pietsdorp it was much, much different. Caught up in the life and personalities of this tiny African town, Sarah was feeling the consequences of her deceit. But mostly she wanted, and yet couldn't, to appeal to Brent Milward - as herself and for herself. She was in love with a man who didn't even know her name!

Polly Linsey's job had seemed most attractive at first sight: touring Europe with a rich American couple, and looking after their two children. But there were drawbacks . . . and at last they became so formidable that one day Polly found herself adrift on the French Riviera with no friends, no job and not nearly enough money to get herself home to England. That was why she made the decision that brought her to Corsica - an island of which she knew nothing except that it was the birthplace of Napoleon and reputedly full of fierce bandits - as the employee of a man about whom she knew even less. She had taken a fantastic risk in accepting the post he offered; how would it all work out?