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Married on the rebound, air hostess Kay Martin, is shocked to discover her former lover, Captain Graham Pender, believed dead in a Colombo plane crash some years earlier, is alive and being held hostage in the Ceylonese jungle.

After being rescued, Graham returns to Ireland and flying, and meets up again with Kay on stopover in New York. They find they still love each other and, in the aftermath of a failed Cuban hijack out of Kennedy Airport, passions run high in the Miami Hotel and they become lovers. Their love affair and Graham's career end abruptly when he receives a summons to appear in the Colombo court to face terrorist charges.

Kay finding herself pregnant with Graham's child and fearing she will lose custody of her baby daughter if her husband learns the truth, loses hope in herself and Graham ever sharing a life together, and ends the relationship. When some years later the couple are thrown together again by the growing friendship between Kay's vivacious nine year old and the Pender family it seems there might be another chance of love but not without further setbacks, even tragedy.