It is never pleasant to be jilted, and when Nurse Clare Butler's fiance tells her brutally that he has never really loved her,she hides her heartache by taking a new job in the Australian Outback. Looking after a motherless seven-year-old boy is no easy task — and nor is guarding her feelings against the magnetism of young Barry's uncle, Doctor David Johnson. After all,David is the one who warned her against falling in love on the rebound . .. and he loves Gillian, Barry's beautiful step- mother, whose sudden arrival threatens everything that Clare has achieved.

SUMMARY: It was with the best and kindest of intentions that Jan was here on Barracuda Island, off Australia's Great Barrier Reef, posing as her sister Felicity. She wanted to help Felicity and her boyfriend Jarvis against opposition to their marriage from Jarvis's guardian, his arrogant, intolerant uncle Ludovic Fairlie, who decreed Jarvis was too young to marry. Although at first Jan told herself she hated Ludovic, it was not long before she was feeling rather differently, so what could she do, now that he had apparently changed his mind and was making enthusiastic plans for her marriage to his nephew?

For as long as Meg Crane could remember, she had experienced the impossible dream—that one day she would live on an island where palm trees were silhouetted against the mountains. And now, in the Seychelles, she had found that island. And she had also found the enemies and rivals Craig Lambert and Gaston Duval, whose two families had feuded before them, and who now would themselves carry on the feud over Meg. Certainly Meg was inclined to be more attracted to Gaston, but she could sympathise with Craig, and with his wish to keep his island unspoiled. But was it only sympathy she was feeling?

REDACTIONELE BEOORDELING: When dancer Natalie Natal became too ill to carry out her latest engagement, she and her husband and partner, Nick, persuaded Lauren to take her place. Thrilled at the prospect of living and working in luxurious surroundings on the romantic Paradise Island, Lauren didn't foresee the difficulties which might arise . . . and arise they did.