Used book – La femme aux yeux d'or, Elizabeth Lowell

Alone at last... At the end of the world... Damon Sutter is looking forward to spending three weeks on holiday – alone – on Lady Elliot Island, a paradisiacal islet in the Great Barrier Reef. Indulging in his passion for scuba diving in this dream setting will make him forget everything, or so he hopes, about the fiasco of his marriage. So he keeps his distance from Mandy Blythe, a mysterious young woman, whom he is nevertheless obliged to see every day on this tiny island. Initially annoyed by her presence, he is gradually troubled by this fragile stranger, who seems to be afraid of her own shadow. What secrets, what wounds does she hide deep in her golden eyes? In this gaze where he reads as much sorrow as fear, and which awakens in him a need to protect her, to help her confront a past that seems to paralyse her... Then a desire all the more exacerbated because he refuses to give in to it. Because, clearly, Mandy is not a woman made for brief affairs, and he can only offer her a few days of passion...