The Guarded Heart

Robyn Donald

After a year abroad, Alannah was returning joyfully to her home in New Zealand - and to David; David whom she had loved for so long and whom she now hoped to marry. She would also, she realised, have to face the inscrutable Nicholas Challoner again; but perhaps by now he would have forgiven her for the tragedy she had unwittingly brought about - when she had accidentally caused the death of his wife. Nicholas, it soon appeared, had not forgiven her; but he had decided how she was going to make amends ...