This thriller, set in the South Pacific, is a tale of smouldering passion, intrigue, death and revenge set against a background of torrid emotions, erupting volcanos, kidnap, fire, transsexuals and hustlers. When Marc and Frances Fairchilde, in their later 20s, moved to Australia from England they did not realise that another move to Papua New Guinea would be in the offing but it was, so they did. Marc had been offered a job with the UN and life on the beautiful, volatile, savage island would be completely changed by a variety of characters, young and old, sexy, larger than life and set against a volcanic background, emotions was tried and tested to the limit, when Frances returned to England after her husband was charged with murder. After a volcanic eruption and her husband went missing and presumed dead, she had a feeling that this was not so and with a young baby, travelled back to the deadly isle. With her baby kidnapped, she turned to an odd couple that ran a night club for help and her friend, Mamma Mia to great effect. Her baby and husband were both found alive. With the night club burnt down, being left a house and business, she met a member of the law that was to make a dramatic change in her life. With unforgettable characters like a sex-change nympho night club queen, two hustlers, a pair of innocent naughty twins and an inevitably raunchy lady in her 80s, the author has woven a highly charged trilogy of characters that is very modern in an old-fashioned way. It lingers well after you put out the light