The Forbidden Valley

by Essie Summers

Charlotte was worried to death about her cousin Phyl. She was already aware that Phyl had something on her mind and was going out to New Zealand to find out what it was all about. But by the time she arrived things had taken a new turn - Phyl had run away from home with another man, leaving her three children, and her husband Owen, setting off after her, had crashed his car and was seriously ill in hospital. A pretty kettle of fish! Charlotte just couldn’t believe that Phyl could behave in such a way - although meanwhile a forbidding brother-in-law, Edmund Leigh, had arrived on the scene and was clearly only too ready to believe the worst, and to tar this unknown English cousin with the same brush. So Charlotte set about solving the mystery, without letting Edmund realize who she was.