Esctasy, pain and desilusion were in her past - would her new love overcome that past? First love can bring ecstasy and pain, sometimes also disillusion. To Gail Redding it brought all three and for a time it seemed as if she would never be able to throw off the shackles of her past. Eventually she decided to leave England and visit friends in West Africa. She fell in love again, this time with a man of integrity, a Security Officer. But she kept the one secret her husband could never forgive. His work was dangerous, and life in the Bush was good and harsh, but Gail tackled it bravely, until, but a strange quirk of fate, the past imprisoned her again, threatening her husband's career and their life together.