Karl was a challenge she couldn't ignore! Reluctantly, Juliet prepared to leave Silbersee, and the Bavarian wood-carving school that had been her second home. Then Karl Adler came storming into the place and Juliet changed her mind. In Karl's eyes, Juliet had letdown his stepbrother when he most needed her--for what Karl insisted were her own selfish reasons. To Juliet, Karl was the business tycoon planning to destroy her picturesque lake by building a sawmill. It was foolish to think their differences could be resolved!

When Emma Redfern arrived at Tangier on a golden July afternoon, it should have been journey’s end which promised lovers’ meeting. Yet within as many days as she had been counting to her marriage, she was to find herself virtually alone there. But not quite friendless. For in the brilliant pioneer of Maritime-Air she found a man to whom she could always turn with trust, and never in vain, even when the impersonal help he gave her conflicted with the more romantic rights claimed by the lovely Spanish widow, Leonore de Coria. Tangier, the colourful gateway between East and West, though alien and menacing at first, at last was to be for Emma ‘the far place that was also home’, the background of a love which came upon her unawares.