Now she wanted only to get away from everything, so when Ninian Macandrew, who had also recently been jilted, asked her to travel to his New Zealand home with him and pose as his fiancee, it seemed the answer to her problems as well as his own. But "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to decieve!" Warmly welcomed into Ninian's home by his kindly parents, treated as a loved daughter, Mary had to remind herself that it was all based on a lie. And there was no chance that Ninian would turn it into reality, for it was clear that he still loved his former fiancee, who was still, as his bother's wife, very much in the picture.

    After eighteen months as a companion-secretary to a charming but eccentric old lady, she felt she was ready to forget the past and begin again…But a chance encounter on a London railway station brings it all back…

    On is set in myth-enshrouded Africa. The other against the Mosques and Minarets of Modern Turkey. In Blue Fire Susan returns to Africa with her husband whom she recently married but scarely knows. Susan fears her first encounter with her father who drover her mother and her from his home and later served a prison term for smuggling diamonds.In Black Amber Tracy vows to solve the mystery of her sister's "suicide by drowning". Tracy is in Istanbul and overhears a heated argument but the only word she knows is her own name. What is the meaning of a string of black amber beads marking an alarming passage in a book? Is Radburn part of some loathsome secret hidden in the past? Tracy senses that she may already know too much and that her life is in peril!

    The time and the place of Catherine's first meeting with Hugh Murdoch, whose secretary she was about to become, were uncommonly ill-chosen (if you could call it choosing), and as for loved ones, Catherine was engaged to a handsome young sports master, and looking forward to an early and blissful marriage. The part, if any, that love played in Hugh's life was obscure, but it seemed that there was a lovely, mysterious blonde who was more than willing to devote herself to him. From their first odd meeting Catherine and Hugh had a strangely unsettling relationship, bedevilled with misunderstandings, yet it was destined to develop into one of lasting happiness.