Cindy fell in love with Martin at the moment when, on an uncomfortable cold evening on a deserted Melbourne street, he picked up a thirteen-year-old girl who had run away from home and took her to his relatives. This is how she found both family and love. Cindy dreamed that someday she and Martin would get married, buy their own house, have a baby, then another and another...Who could have foreseen that their relationship would fall apart literally before our eyes? Now Cindy has loneliness and no recipe to become desired by Martin again...

Note 2020: Published under the pseudonym Lauryn Butler, but authored by Elizabeth Duke.