The meeting of a young, charming Australian woman with her American father, who left her mother before Penny was born, was not destined to take place: both he and her grandmother died in a big fire. Circumstances connect the girl’s fate with her self-confident neighbor, planter John Miller. From the first moment, she realized that this is the only man to whom she is ready to belong completely, but... This fatal handsome man only insists that Penny sell the land she inherited. He clearly owns some secret connected with her father’s past, and he treats her ironically and self-confidently, although he can be soft and surprisingly gentle... Without revealing further content, we will only point out that the reader will not be upset by the bad ending of this novel, published for the first time Russian language.