Leonie went aboard Guy Richardson's boat with the deliberate intention of seducing him. It wasn't something she had ever done before, but in her opinion he deserved to be manipulated and betrayed as ruthlessly as he had treated other women; and if he fell in love with her, so much the better! She had forgotten that her own secrets might make her bulnerable, and that a sensible music teacher in a Queensland girls' school might have trouble coping with a masterful, and very desirable man like Guy - whether she succeeded in her plans or not.