She didn't want him just as a guardian! Stephen Brent was a man who made Melanie very aware of how young and inexperienced she was. "A girl like you shouldn't be wandering around unprotected," he told her, and took it upon himself to be her guardian on the beautiful tropical island of Mindoa. But Melanie wasn't a schoolgirl anymore. Stephen Brent was fast turning her into a woman—so why wouldn't he recognize the fact?