Synopsis
This book is the embodiment of many issues of the darker
side of today’s society. Auckland
city is chosen because of her cosmopolitan features, as well as the presence of
immigrants, new and old. There are mail order brides from all over the world.
This story could happen in any big city in the world.
Boorish blue collar worker Norman, reacting to his
nagging wife Diane of twenty years to improve himself physically and
intellectually, indulges in a torrid affair with a young Polynesian girl. Diane’s
drastic weight loss and obsession to success had driven him away, and they
separate. Gary
introduces Norman
to a mail order bride website, while benefiting from this business arrangement.
Emma, the antagonist arrives in New Zealand; not the
beautiful diminutive Filipino girl, posted on the website, but a fat and ugly
almost forty matronly woman. Emma cheats on Norman; resulting in a murder
suicide of her lover Robert and Norman. Pregnant Emma is deported back to the Philippines
with a resolution, “I will be back!”
Emma returns to New Zealand as Isabella, a tourist
and entraps weak-willed wimpy bachelor Gilbert to a marriage of convenience.
Bored by marriage to a dull poor traveling tradesman, Isabella seeks solace and
fun with one night stands. Isabella persuades Gilbert to adopt her love child
from her liaison with Robert. Isabella
meets young Jamie and makes him her toy boy showering him with expensive gifts.
Isabella is exposed, in the process Gilbert suffers a massive heart attack and
dies.
Mother and daughter rivalry turns bad. Jamie becomes her
Romeo con man and leaves. Christine is scouted to be a child model with the
approval of Isabella. Unknowingly, Christine falls prey to Matt, a sex predator
and child pornographer.
The hideous business is exposed by a victim’s father and
the perpectrators are sent to jail. Isabella’s heinous past is also exposed
across the ditch in Australia.
Christine runs away from foster care and joins a street
gang and gets involved in all sorts of childhood shenanigans. The gang king pin
makes her a child prostitute while pretending to be her lover. A serious car
collision results in tragedy, six kids are killed.
Christine is impregnated by her client, and she adopts
the baby out. She finds out Isabella is her biological mum who gave her blood
to save her after her suicide attempt. The two reconcile.
Healing comes with love shown by Connie who takes it
upon herself to stand by Christine. Connie and her Maori family show Christine the
power of whanau.
