Simon Charles had virtually picked Emma up on a Queensland Beach when she gone to try and sort out her muddled life; but it wasn't as bad as it sounded - Simon, it appeared, had problems of his own, and Emma, he said, could help him, by pretending to be his fiancee for a short time. But it wasn't going to help either of them if Emma fell in love with him. For one thing, when she found out what his background really was she realised that she could never hope to fit into it. And, too, there was his beautiful fiancee carolyn, who made it only too clear that she intended to get him back... - back cover (London, 1982)