Bride at Bay Hospital. Meredith Webber

week, but the night before she’d arrived, cool, controlled Sam, who rarely showed any emotion at all, had had a fight.

      He’d put Ben Richards in hospital with a broken jaw. The first move in seven weeks of madness and mayhem when he’d torn through town like a tornado, barely escaping being locked up for drunken behaviour, losing his licence for a multitude of offences, not least of which had been speeding down the Esplanade, and, most hurtful of all to Meg, dating every teenage female in the caravan park.