The Secret Woman — Victoria Holt

THEY SAY THERE IS A SECRET SELF IN EVERY WOMAN--ONE WITH A HIDDEN PASSION, OR A PRIVATE HAPPINESS, OR A SHADOWED FEAR....

To all appearances Anna Brett was merely a quiet, capable young woman whose only ambition was to carry on the profitable antiques business bequeathed her by a spinster aunt.

And so she was--until the memory of a cherished moment with a blue-eyed stranger suddenly returned to haunt her with savage intensity.

It was then Anna discovered the secret woman who waited within her--an impetuous, daring, passionate creature willing to risk everything to follow the impossible--and dangerous dream that lay in wait for her on a faraway island in the South Seas....