Summer at Awakopu

by Robyn Donald

'Women like roots, and I have none,’ said Theo Carrington firmly, when he sailed in to young Janey Bowden's New Zealand home to spend the summer - and Janey knew it was true. Nevertheless, Theo was the most attractive man she had met in her young life, and she couldn't help - well, throwing herself at his head. But she knew that the end of summer would see the end of him, that she was too young for him, that he preferred more sophisticated girls like her sister Penny. Janey knew all this - but would any of it help her face the inevitable heartbreak?

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