Island of Fire

More about the book

Shipped out to the jungles and volcanoes of Java by her strait-laced Dutch relations, rebellious Anneke van de Velde finds a kindred spirit in Harvey Brand, artist, libertine and social outcast. And when she is pressured into betrothal to an austere missionary it is to Harvey Brand, reputation or no, that Anneke must flee - even though she knows that he loves one woman, has been married to another, and has nothing left in his heart for her...