Passion or hatred--which was stronger?

From the moment she first met heartless, handsome Kyle Beringer, Arminel was overwhelmed by conflicting emotions.

Kyle was convinced Arminel's engagement to his brother Rhys was not a union of two lovers. In fact, he assumed she was a gold-digging little tramp, interested only in the Beringer fortune.

He did everything he could to make it clear her presence on the family's New Zealand sheep station was an unwelcome intrusion.

But his eyes gave him away. They flamed with violent desire that Arminel was powerless to resist.

Before her departure from the Beringer estate, Kyle manages to seduce innocent Arminel; but still thinks she's a tramp, though she'd been a virgin.

She leaves and on plane, meets another very rich man and agrees to marry him; this man is terminally ill and has a limited time left an he tells Arminel that he would like to father a child before dying. Arminel has a happy marriage with him and gives him a daughter before he dies.

Some years down the track, she meets Kyle again.....