She was no longer a schoolgirl. These past few weeks had made her a woman. But what point was there in remaining at Paradiablo? Declan despised her for revealing her immature feelings so openly; Clare no doubt found the whole affair unutterably amusing; while her father... . What would her father say if she told him she was in love with a man whose home was in the foothills of the upper Amazon basin? Alexandra could answer her own question. He would be horrified!