AustLit

'Belle Amber had always been part of Karen Hartmann's life, and now she was living there again it was dearer to her than anything or anyone else - except Guy Amber.

'Guy was Guy, a man of immense charisma, but nobody had warned Karen about Celia, the exquisite figure with a heart of ice...' (Publication summary)

'All her life Johanna Coleman had been used to getting her own way where men were concerned, and now that she had decided she wanted to go on this exciting expedition among the lagoons of northern Australia's Timor Sea she didn't anticipate much trouble. Not, that was, until she met Nick Bannon, the leader of the expedition, who made it clear from the start that he wasn't having her.

'And so began a battle of wills between them – Nick, who for once had an iron hand without a velvet glove, and Johanna, who found to her dismay, in no time at all, that there was no one else in the world for her but Nick Bannon.

'But Nick, it seemed, didn't want her – now or at any time in the future. Was Johanna, for once, going to lose?' (Publication summary)