Kirsty MacTaggart couldn't quite believe what had happened to her — her life had been changed so violently and so quickly. A few days ago she had been the quiet, prim daughter of the Manse in a small Scottish village; now she found herself on the other side of the world, in Australia, married to Andrew Fraser, a man she scarcely knew. It was going to be very difficult to adjust — both to life in the Outback and to being Andrew's wife 'in name only '— because he had married her only to provide a chaperone for his young ward Mary, but Kirsty might have managed it, if the emotional problems hadn't come crowding in. For just as Kirsty realised that she had fallen in love with her husband, it also dawned on her that he was in love with another woman .. .