They were the innocent children of an exotic island paradise. Then she was tken away to a New World as tame and proper as his was savage and elegant. Melinda Scott came of age in Philadelphis but she would return to Java to claim her half of her father's tea plantation and the heart of its handsome co-owner, the maverick, Britt Vandekker.
SPOILER ALERT: last sentence is "Britt's eyes softened to amber, took on an autumn haze; and he leaned closer to kiss Minda as a Javanese would caress his love."
