About This Book
After six years of waiting for her husband's return, Maura is swept up on a second honeymoon with a stranger. The man claiming to be Aubrey looked like him, but who was he really?
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.....Maura had yearned for this day, when the dashing young lover, who had swept her into a precipitate marriage, would come home. For six years, while Aubrey had languished in a foreign prison, where his amateur smuggling had landed him, Maura had struggled, with the help of Aunt Cicely, to earn a living for herself and her small daughter. But... the Aubrey who insisted on carrying her off for a 'second honeymoon' to the fishing village where they had first met, seemed as different from the Aubrey of her golden memories as St. Ida's in February was different from the St. Ida's of that far off, glorious August.
.....Maura was ashamed of her instinctive withdrawal... but wasn't Aubrey behaving oddly? Why was he so furious when Alec, with whom Maura had made friends in Aunt Cicely's antique shop, turned up at St. Ida's?
.....It was a shattering shock when Alec told her that he suspected Aubrey of having been one of the notorious 'Friday Gang', and of having returned to St. Ida's to reclaim the loot which he had been obliged to abandon six years ago. It was an even worse shock to Maura to discover that the man posing as her husband wasn't Aubrey, but Aubrey's cousin, and evil genius who, by threatening her daughter's future, intended to force Maura to co-operate with him.
.....In her desperate anxiety and suspense, how could she guess that, in a year's time, she would be enjoying a genuine 'second honeymoon' at St. Ida's?
Hero: Alec Alexander
Heroine: Maura Gray
