Beth couldn't forget or forgive the humiliation.
Ten years before, Chad Barret had put Beth across his knee and spanked her with her own leather sandal! The fact that she deserved it didn't alter her feelings.

Beth had been a child then--now she was a young woman--but on the few occasions she had seen him through the years, the memory had rankled.

Now, however, her uncle expected Beth to live at Jacana Lodge for a year to help run his South African farm--and to be a hospitable next-door neighbor to Chad!