Trapped in the middle of the African jungle while a war raged round her, Eve Tarrant knew that all that stood between her and a singularly unpleasant fate at the hands of African revolutionaries was the tough mercenary Major Wade O'Mara. Thrown together as they were, it was inevitable that she should fall in love with him. But would he succumb to the temptation? For even if they ever managed to get out of this desperate situation alive, Wade was a married man with a son. Shouldn't Eve put the whole episode in the past, and forget it and everything connected with it?