title: My Gypsy Lover
author: Sandton, Amanda
description: Rikki's ex-lover has become her stepbrother.She couldn't think of anything worse.Eighteen-year-old Rikki Ottaway returns from boarding school to find that her father has remarried without telling her. As if that wasn't bad enough, his new wife is Maeve McDeglin of all people. She's the mother of Rikki's ex-boyfriend and lover, the Irish Traveller, Dane McDeglin.So, to her horror Rikki has to spend the summer holidays in her overcrowded family home with Dane, her new stepbrother. He's the one who broke up their relationship. Now he will be here, there and everywhere, and Rikki will have to deal with his presence every day while nursing her broken heart in secret.The McDeglins are Irish Travellers or gypsies and lived in the illegal campsite next door to Rikki's family home. This marriage draws Rikki's family into the Travellers' conflict with the local council.Besieged both within and without, will Rikki have the strength of mind to cope with this situation? Will Rikki and Dane be able to rub along as step siblings, or will their relationship become even more hostile?(The love scenes in this book do not take place behind closed doors.)