Emmeline Morrison

[from inner flap dj] When Helena Adair loses her job as a journalist, she little thinks that she will find herself almost at once en route to South Africa, to take up a post as private secretary to the wealthy mining magnate, Mark Trevane; still less that she will so soon be caught up in a series of dramatic and mysterious adventures. Readers will be enthralled by this story of a women's relationship with two men -- of her feelings for the enigmatical Mark, despotic and seemingly cold, and for the attractive Julian Loveland, and of how, after a memorable year, she eventually finds happiness. The story, set against a vividly realised South African background, has the many qualities which have earned Miss Emmeline Morrison such a wide following.

Free at last from the family ties which have bound her for the past ten years, Brenda Harrington, a spinster of thirty with a legacy of three hundred pounds, sets out for the Continent with few plans, but a determination to find for herself adventure and romance. The year is 1939, and Brenda finds what she is looking for -- she also finds danger. This is the exciting story of the events which take her to Tangier, where she is unwittingly involved in a jewel theft, and finally to Nazi Austria, where she finds herself in a dangerous but somewhat unusual situation. Throughout her travels, she is dogged by the fascinating Maurice Granelle -- a young man as mysterious as he is ubiquitous, and whose true identity Brenda cannot discover. Readers will be intrigued by the story of how she at last reads his secret; of her unexpected meeting with the man she loved when she was nineteen; of the exciting chase which at last brings her to safety, and of the dramatic revelations which await her in England. Brenda is an individual heroine whose love problems are no less absorbing than her adventures; her constantly changing relationship with Maurice is handled with a skill which holds the reader spellbound. By a popular and accomplished writer, this is a fascinating blend of excitement and romance.