He refused to let her go

"Am Ito take you home, Mystery Girl?" Ashley Carlton was completely baffled by the young woman who'd dashed in front of his Jaguar.

She refused to tell him where she lived, which left Ashley no choice but to take the disturbing waif who called herself Christina Seaton to his own home at Australia's Surfer's Paradise.

He took her under his wing, despite her determined secrecy. And there, quite unexpectedly, she felt an overpowering sense of belonging.