Jill was loving every minute of her life on the South African farm owned by her brother and his wife until the advent of the superior Dean Lester, a timber planter, who had taken over Nyala Mount, a neighbouring property. Jill disliked him at sight - his domineering ways, his superiority, his interference. But she disliked him just a bit too much, and her violent feelings were almost bound to change into something else. It took the arrival of the glamorous Sylvia de Courcy to make Jill realise just how much her feelings for Dean had changed - and by then it looked like being too late.