Lindy McAllister has a lot to be proud of. At twenty-eight, she is a geology professor, teaching at a college, and advising at the Institute of Technology. It was not easy for her to succeed in the all-male profession of geologist. I had to face prejudice, envy, ridicule and even betrayal. She learned to hide her feelings and became as hard and unshakable as granite. The men she met seemed frivolous and unreliable to her, and Lindy stopped dreaming of love. But one day her whole measured life was turned upside down by a meeting with Nick Jarrett...

Note 2020: Published under the pseudonym Natalie Vox, but the author Helen James.