Josie really hardly knew the surgeon Charles Demettre when he asked her to marry him. But any slight misgivings she might have felt at his hasty arrangements for their wedding - he was shortly to take up a new post in the Channel Islands, and wanted to take his wife with him - were stifled by the knowlegde that she was deeply in love with him. A few hours after the marriage Josie knew she had made a dreadful mistake. For she had discovered Charles's secret - and surely the fact that he had not told her himself must mean that he did not love her? How could she hope to make a success of their marriage when it was built on such a complete lack of trust?