Jennet was sure of one thing ... There'd be no welcome for her at Te Puriri Station—especially not from her stepbrother, Rafe Hollingworth. To Rafe she would always be an amoral, scheming troublemaker! Still, she had to try. She just couldn't let her half sister, Melly, marry Derek Compton. Jennet's own marriage to Derek Compton had ended four years earlier—for reasons she'd never disclosed to her family. But now, to save Melly, she'd have to risk her own chance for future happiness. And risk Rafe's continued hatred and contempt. If only she didn't love him....

Where she was concerned Trent had no scruples Nothing—not even Trent's divorce—could alter the fact that he'd cruelly jilted Melly in favor of a more advantageous marriage. His undeniable love for her only made his betrayal all the more searing, her return to New Zealand even more unsettling. Trent wanted her back. No, demanded it! Passion, trust... the lot. His single-minded ambition was to lay bare her love for him at any cost. Yet he hardly even tried to explain the past. And until he did, how could Melly trust opportunity not to sway his ambition a second time?