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First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Very light age tanning to pages. Price still on dustjacket. “John Waters is a successful petroleum geologist with the perfect family. Then one day his world is turned inside out by a single word spoken from the lips of a beautiful stranger. That word, “Soon…”, sends him hurtling back in time to a past he has never quite forgotten; the most passionate affair of his life. Mallory Candler was the quintessential Southern Bell. But her captivating beauty and intelligence hid a dark side only John Waters was allowed to see. When her seething passion threatened to destroy them both, he ended their affair and moved on, choosing stability and sanity over ecstacy. Mallory too married and had children, but she never stopped trying to reconcile with Waters until the day she was found raped and murdered on a New Orleans pier.” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH