Miranda travelled to Mexico to find out if the child who was being looked after in a Catholic mission was in fact her niece, Lucy, who had been given up for dead after the air disaster in which Miranda’s sister and brother-in-law had been killed. She found that the child was in good hands – those of Juan Cueras, who had more or less adopted the child and seemed genuinely to love her. Juan was helpful, but it was his enigmatic brother Rafael to whom Miranda felt most drawn. But the two brothers seemed destined to bring her nothing but unhappiness – for would it be fair to take the child away from the person with whom she had settled so happily? While Rafael seemed to have no feelings for Miranda at all…