Well this was a different kettle of fish. It was one of those where you just had to decide not to get upset about how totally wimpy and doormatish the heroine was. She was only 20 though so that helped. Hopefully she'll grow a spine as she gets older.

General review of plot below. Leonie finds out after her mother dies that her real father is not dead as she has been told all her life. He left her mother and herself and went to Africa as a doctor when she was two. Against the wishes of her domineering step-father and almost fiance, she goes to Africa to meet him. On the journey she meets up with Greg, a world travelling journalist. He is 38 years old. Not my favorite set up but it can work. The problem here is that the heroine is such a doormat. She doesn't like to be bullied but mostly she just goes along with whatever man is deciding things for her because that is the way her stepfather has trained her to be.

She meets Greg. He tells her this part of Africa is no place for a young white girl and to go home. She meets her dad. Then a couple of days later, civil war erupts. Greg shows up, fake marries her to get her out of the country. When she gets home, her stepfather immediately railroads her into marrying the fiance whom she doesn't love, nor does he love her. One week from the wedding Greg shows up and says the marriage was valid after all and they are still married. Leonie just lets herself be bossed around whoever is doing the bossing. But she decides she loves Greg so she prefers his bossing around.

Strange little book but kept my interest once I gave up being irritated that she was such a wimp. Hero and heroine did not spend a lot of time together but the book was seriously short. ( )