By Margaret Way
Would the sordid past haunt her forever? Caroline had been abandoned as a child, but when a house was left to her in her father's will, she went to north Queensland to claim her inheritance. She didn't even know she had a past, let alone a questionable one. But Kiall Stirling knew otherwise. In his eyes, Caroline had been tarred with the same brush as her mother, whose only crime it seemed, was in loving a man...
Severity reflects intensity, not value — “central theme” means a warning is a core part of the book, not that the book is bad.