Publisher's Synopsis
He is a mechanical engineer of repute. He is brilliant, gifted and hard working. He graduated top of his class. His company specialises in designing small items that are the cogs in huge wheels. Business is good.He is on demand at the company he works as a new projects engineering manager. His dating sequence is interrupted by his workaholism. He puts too much pressure on the job front occasionally forgetting that Muriel is on hold. Muriel is stuck dumb and tired of his excuses. She runs off for Christmas to her parents scuttling their plans that he had been behind on. Hubert follows, somehow due to his pressurised mind, he loses direction and with his speeding Mercedes at the bottom of a lake.Muriel asks him questions he can't answer like how did he end up eighty kilometres off course? He is fished out by a girl called Roxanne who has had one bad date after another. Her town is a gossip haven, now they wonder where this charming date of Roxanne escaped them. How had Roxanne kept him boxed out of their news? Roxanne is not just a farm girl who doesn't mind cow poop. She is a systems engineer with British Telecomm. Christmas is not with Muriel but with Roxanne, her parents and her friends. He returns to jingle work, Muriel and Roxanne with the usual clatter and clash. Who will he finally date between Roxanne and Muriel? When Muriel plays him against Roxanne and he is caught pants down, will Roxanne ever accept his explanation that it was staged? What was Hubert doing 8, 225-kilometres away from his native Scotland in Hwange Game Reserve watching wild animals without any of the two girls? Which girl will be crazy enough to follow him and declare her love
