Elizabeth's journey to Cape Town included the very reverse of a shipboard romance, for a lively mutual dislike was established between her and a certain tall, dark passenger. So it was a shock to her to learn on landing that there was a very close connection between this man, Nigel Van Kane, and the father she had come so many miles to see. Worse, she was going to be in a position where she would have to be grateful to him! Yet Elizabeth wasn't at all keen on the alternative - to accept help from the beautiful Carol Wainwright. And too late she realised why: she was jealous of the undoubted power Carol had over the aloof Nigel ...