She'd been duly warned, of course

But what really got her dander up was Rafe O'Sullivan's taunts that she wasn't the type to manage a farm.

She had inherited the twenty-acre piece of land near Australia's north coast and, fed up with city life, had decided to give the country life a try. Unfortunately, the land was smack dab in the middle of Rafe's, and he badly wanted her to sell out to him.

Not on your life, she said to herself.