And Minerva Robertson wanted to know why, with everything to live for, Stella had chosen to die. Following the lonely road to Spanish Castle, she only meant to glimpse the cattle station where her stepsister spent her final year.
When a family crisis calls the housekeeper away, Minerva agrees to stay and cater an important dinner for visiting Brazilian officials.
The only person who might be able to give her an answer was wickedly attractive Nick Peveril, Stella's husband. But he wasn't the conventional grieving widower.
What was Minerva to make of him? And should she fight the passion she felt for him?