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Where Eagles Soar
He could flirt with life but not with her!
An Arizona mountaintop was an unlikely and perhaps "risky" place to fall head over heels for a jet-setting adventurer--but Jenny Roberts did when she rescued Paul Conan Brant III.
Nevertheless, Jenny hardly approved of the thrill-seeking activity that landed him there. Fascinating he might be, but not, in Jenny's opinion, marriage material.
So when Paul volunteered to join her search-and-rescue team, Jenny held no illusions. He could have his little amusement--but not with her!
An Arizona mountaintop was an unlikely and perhaps "risky" place to fall head over heels for a jet-setting adventurer--but Jenny Roberts did when she rescued Paul Conan Brant III.
Nevertheless, Jenny hardly approved of the thrill-seeking activity that landed him there. Fascinating he might be, but not, in Jenny's opinion, marriage material.
So when Paul volunteered to join her search-and-rescue team, Jenny held no illusions. He could have his little amusement--but not with her!
192 pages, Paperback
First published July 10, 1987
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March 16, 2011
I won't give out the story/quotes/scenes but I can tell you what I believe about LOVE:
1- I believe love is a see-saw. There's not a person alive who's been all-happy while being in love. Love is the most wonderful and the most torturous time a person can face.
2- I think if you are in a committed relationship( and stand corrected I'm not just talking about romantic relationship), there will come a point when you'll look at the other person and think: "What was I THINKING!?!?!"(or "UGH! I can't believe there I'm stuck with such family/friends/whatever!!!!"). This could be over the toothpaste left in the sink or hot drinks left on the table w/o a coaster...how you respond to this thought is crucial. If you take it with humor and make a joke about it, it makes an impossible situation fun and more bearable (or it does for me...)
3- In case you missed my point in the rant, I believe humor makes my life bearable. It could be a retort, word play or the gentle teasing which lets the other person know that you care about them. If I can't laugh with you, I'll never consider you a friend (and for me there's no love without a friendship).
4- I know its natural to want to try to change the other person's view to your point of view (I think it's just convenient for us lazy bones). There's one problem. They are trying to do the same to you. You can't change the other person unless they want to change. And yes, some people do give up their hobbies cuz of their spouse/significant others but they always resent it. The quest to change a person's personality is one which needs to be taken very very seriously.
After saying this, I'll only say this: You know, mostly I am embarrased about my HQN reading. But once a blue moon I come across a book which blows me away. This was one of them. Rating: 10 stars
1- I believe love is a see-saw. There's not a person alive who's been all-happy while being in love. Love is the most wonderful and the most torturous time a person can face.
2- I think if you are in a committed relationship( and stand corrected I'm not just talking about romantic relationship), there will come a point when you'll look at the other person and think: "What was I THINKING!?!?!"(or "UGH! I can't believe there I'm stuck with such family/friends/whatever!!!!"). This could be over the toothpaste left in the sink or hot drinks left on the table w/o a coaster...how you respond to this thought is crucial. If you take it with humor and make a joke about it, it makes an impossible situation fun and more bearable (or it does for me...)
3- In case you missed my point in the rant, I believe humor makes my life bearable. It could be a retort, word play or the gentle teasing which lets the other person know that you care about them. If I can't laugh with you, I'll never consider you a friend (and for me there's no love without a friendship).
4- I know its natural to want to try to change the other person's view to your point of view (I think it's just convenient for us lazy bones). There's one problem. They are trying to do the same to you. You can't change the other person unless they want to change. And yes, some people do give up their hobbies cuz of their spouse/significant others but they always resent it. The quest to change a person's personality is one which needs to be taken very very seriously.
After saying this, I'll only say this: You know, mostly I am embarrased about my HQN reading. But once a blue moon I come across a book which blows me away. This was one of them. Rating: 10 stars
October 24, 2020
I was really enjoying this one and it was heading to be a 3/4 star from me until the last couple of chapters where both characters turned into complete donuts.
The h recovered from her bout of idiocy fairly quickly but the H really let me down there in the end and he never recovered his brownie points from me.
The H is bit of a wastrel playboy. He comes from a rich family and spends his life risking his neck by climbing Everest and other dangerous activities and actually does nothing productive at all. (Turns out he is all bent out of shape because he wanted to become a test pilot, followed by astronaut to follow the family tradition of flying). I got the impression the astronaut thing wasn't because he loved space it was more to do with being better at it than his family by reaching the pinnacle of his profession. A cold resulting in a perforated eardrum put paid to that so he just aimlessly risks his neck with no purpose. We meet him about to crash his friends glider/plane and realising he actually doesn't care if he dies.
The h is a search and rescue party member who is a bank teller when not out rescuing idiot playboys. He thinks shes just an airhead whose job on the team is to hold and mop brows but he pretty much falls for her then and there. h does the job partly out of guilt as she used to be a bit of a daredevil herself and her high school boyfriend died after they went on a bit of a joyride.
I liked that he had to pay a fine for being rescued, and that she called him on his poor behaviour of attempting to drink drive and overrule her wants.
He volunteers for the team to give himself purpose (and to get closer to the h)and proximity makes these 2 eventually fall for each other however for me he completely ruins it in the end.
He convinces her to travel to Yosemite with him but fails to tell her he has signed up for a super dangerous climb. She is of course terrified that she will lose him and asks him not to do it (he doesn't have to do it really) he refuses and they break up. He fully expects the h to chase after him and while he is waiting he is belligerent and drinks lots, he certainly isn't training to be in peak physical condition to climb El Capitan.
h does realise what she is in the wrong asking him not to do it and chases after him realising that if she doesn't see him before the climb her gesture will be useless. She of course makes it.
Now this is the point where I expected him to bend as well. He had no need to climb and with all his drinking he wasn't in the best state. I was hoping that he would see the h's POV that he was risking himself needlessly and as she had already watched one life partner die he was a big enough man to not put her through that.
Unfortunately, he let her down, BIGTIME! went off to climb then joins an international rescue team with his mate. when she asks to join with him seen as rescue is also he thing he is a total hypocrite and when she calls him on it he just says basically he will get her pregnant so she can stay at home and raise Paul Brant the IV.
He made me totally angry in the end which is a shame as I am quite enjoying this authors books at the moment.
*Also I was always told jeans were a terrible item to wear when out in the hills though as when they get wet they take ages to dry, chafe and will make you cold so I was quite surprised to find them as kind of standard with this S&R team lol*
The h recovered from her bout of idiocy fairly quickly but the H really let me down there in the end and he never recovered his brownie points from me.
The H is bit of a wastrel playboy. He comes from a rich family and spends his life risking his neck by climbing Everest and other dangerous activities and actually does nothing productive at all. (Turns out he is all bent out of shape because he wanted to become a test pilot, followed by astronaut to follow the family tradition of flying). I got the impression the astronaut thing wasn't because he loved space it was more to do with being better at it than his family by reaching the pinnacle of his profession. A cold resulting in a perforated eardrum put paid to that so he just aimlessly risks his neck with no purpose. We meet him about to crash his friends glider/plane and realising he actually doesn't care if he dies.
The h is a search and rescue party member who is a bank teller when not out rescuing idiot playboys. He thinks shes just an airhead whose job on the team is to hold and mop brows but he pretty much falls for her then and there. h does the job partly out of guilt as she used to be a bit of a daredevil herself and her high school boyfriend died after they went on a bit of a joyride.
I liked that he had to pay a fine for being rescued, and that she called him on his poor behaviour of attempting to drink drive and overrule her wants.
He volunteers for the team to give himself purpose (and to get closer to the h)and proximity makes these 2 eventually fall for each other however for me he completely ruins it in the end.
He convinces her to travel to Yosemite with him but fails to tell her he has signed up for a super dangerous climb. She is of course terrified that she will lose him and asks him not to do it (he doesn't have to do it really) he refuses and they break up. He fully expects the h to chase after him and while he is waiting he is belligerent and drinks lots, he certainly isn't training to be in peak physical condition to climb El Capitan.
h does realise what she is in the wrong asking him not to do it and chases after him realising that if she doesn't see him before the climb her gesture will be useless. She of course makes it.
Now this is the point where I expected him to bend as well. He had no need to climb and with all his drinking he wasn't in the best state. I was hoping that he would see the h's POV that he was risking himself needlessly and as she had already watched one life partner die he was a big enough man to not put her through that.
Unfortunately, he let her down, BIGTIME! went off to climb then joins an international rescue team with his mate. when she asks to join with him seen as rescue is also he thing he is a total hypocrite and when she calls him on it he just says basically he will get her pregnant so she can stay at home and raise Paul Brant the IV.
He made me totally angry in the end which is a shame as I am quite enjoying this authors books at the moment.
*Also I was always told jeans were a terrible item to wear when out in the hills though as when they get wet they take ages to dry, chafe and will make you cold so I was quite surprised to find them as kind of standard with this S&R team lol*
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September 11, 2017
Ah finally a self sufficient woman, strong with her convictions and taking life on ... falling in love with a man who appreciates her. Great adventurous story.
February 17, 2026
It was pretty great until a corny ending. This is the story of a small-town girl with conservative, almost prudish values, clashing with an arrogant, rich, worldly and dare-devilish hero. The heroine was sympathetic and relatable. The hero remained pretty childish, stubborn, and arrogant til the very end, which does not bode for a solid HEA imho.
The heroine meets the hero when she is part of a rescue mission searching for the pilot of a private plane who crashed in a mountainous area when he was having a “joy ride” without permission of the authorities. Her team finds him unconscious but miraculously alive and rush him to the hospital. She is tasked with literally holding his hand and talking to him as he comes in and out of consciousness, while they are transporting him.
A week later, the hero is released from the hospital and makes a beeline to the heroine’s place of work, intent on finding the woman who he thinks of as his guardian angel. Things do not go well. Heroine has read up on hero. He has been tabloid fodder for years due to his extreme stunts, whether mountain climbing Mount Everest or crossing the oceans on a sailboat, all seemingly for the thrill and publicity. She resents him for putting people like her, who risk their lives everyday for a good cause, unnecessarily at risk by deliberately flouting conventions and challenging death for fun. And when he is not pulling a stunt, he is indulging in female groupies, from the ski bunnies on the slopes of Saint Moritz to glamorous models in London nightclubs.
The heroine, on the other hand, has lived a sedate life as a bank teller in her small town, while volunteering on the local search and rescue, ever since her high school boyfriend died while they were having their own bit of a joy ride and the car plunged off a cliff. She was unhurt physically but stuck in the car for five hours with her dead boyfriend next to her, until she was rescued. She lives with the immense guilt of having challenged him to have some fun by calling him a “wet blanket” and such, leading to their accident. When the hero calls her a “wet blanket” and other choice names because she criticizes him and doesn’t fall at his feet like one of his groupies, she is triggered.
To her great surprise, the next day, the hero shows up at her search and rescue and offers himself as a volunteer. The heroine is skeptical but the hero goes to great length to follow the rules and training and become a part of the team. They gradually befriend each other and the hero confesses his Great Traumatik Seekret to her: His dream to become a pilot for the Air Force was unfulfilled due to a shattered eardrum and ever since then, he has been doing the daredevil bit because life has lost all meaning. I thought that was so lame honestly! The heroine feels wildly attracted to him but she is weary. What possible future could there be for them when she is firmly entrenched in Cochise Bend, Arizona and he is always flying off to the next destination and the next daredevil stunt?
Things come to a head when they spend a weekend at a ski resort in Yosemite and the hero declares himself in love and he wants to marry the heroine. The heroine is wildly in love by now but still weary. Her concerns are crystallized when the hero tells her of his next upcoming adventure climbing El Capitan, an impossibly steep mountain that is even more dangerous than Mount Everest. She gives him an ultimatum and he reacts badly. They separate for six weeks during which they are both miserable but both stubborn. In the end, it’s the heroine who compromises and returns to him for their dubious HEA. She is signing up for another future tragedy, in my opinion, which makes this “happy ending” wobbly at best. I enjoyed the story overall but not the hero.
The heroine meets the hero when she is part of a rescue mission searching for the pilot of a private plane who crashed in a mountainous area when he was having a “joy ride” without permission of the authorities. Her team finds him unconscious but miraculously alive and rush him to the hospital. She is tasked with literally holding his hand and talking to him as he comes in and out of consciousness, while they are transporting him.
A week later, the hero is released from the hospital and makes a beeline to the heroine’s place of work, intent on finding the woman who he thinks of as his guardian angel. Things do not go well. Heroine has read up on hero. He has been tabloid fodder for years due to his extreme stunts, whether mountain climbing Mount Everest or crossing the oceans on a sailboat, all seemingly for the thrill and publicity. She resents him for putting people like her, who risk their lives everyday for a good cause, unnecessarily at risk by deliberately flouting conventions and challenging death for fun. And when he is not pulling a stunt, he is indulging in female groupies, from the ski bunnies on the slopes of Saint Moritz to glamorous models in London nightclubs.
The heroine, on the other hand, has lived a sedate life as a bank teller in her small town, while volunteering on the local search and rescue, ever since her high school boyfriend died while they were having their own bit of a joy ride and the car plunged off a cliff. She was unhurt physically but stuck in the car for five hours with her dead boyfriend next to her, until she was rescued. She lives with the immense guilt of having challenged him to have some fun by calling him a “wet blanket” and such, leading to their accident. When the hero calls her a “wet blanket” and other choice names because she criticizes him and doesn’t fall at his feet like one of his groupies, she is triggered.
To her great surprise, the next day, the hero shows up at her search and rescue and offers himself as a volunteer. The heroine is skeptical but the hero goes to great length to follow the rules and training and become a part of the team. They gradually befriend each other and the hero confesses his Great Traumatik Seekret to her: His dream to become a pilot for the Air Force was unfulfilled due to a shattered eardrum and ever since then, he has been doing the daredevil bit because life has lost all meaning. I thought that was so lame honestly! The heroine feels wildly attracted to him but she is weary. What possible future could there be for them when she is firmly entrenched in Cochise Bend, Arizona and he is always flying off to the next destination and the next daredevil stunt?
Things come to a head when they spend a weekend at a ski resort in Yosemite and the hero declares himself in love and he wants to marry the heroine. The heroine is wildly in love by now but still weary. Her concerns are crystallized when the hero tells her of his next upcoming adventure climbing El Capitan, an impossibly steep mountain that is even more dangerous than Mount Everest. She gives him an ultimatum and he reacts badly. They separate for six weeks during which they are both miserable but both stubborn. In the end, it’s the heroine who compromises and returns to him for their dubious HEA. She is signing up for another future tragedy, in my opinion, which makes this “happy ending” wobbly at best. I enjoyed the story overall but not the hero.
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August 26, 2016
What the f*ckery--- again.
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July 4, 2018He could flirt with life but not with her!
An Arizona mountaintop was an unlikely and perhaps "risky" place to fall head over heels for a jet-setting adventurer--but Jenny Roberts did when she rescued Paul Conan Brant III.
Nevertheless, Jenny hardly approved of the thrill-seeking activity that landed him there. Fascinating he might be, but not, in Jenny's opinion, marriage material.
So when Paul volunteered to join her search-and-rescue team, Jenny held no illusions. He could have his little amusement--but not with her!
An Arizona mountaintop was an unlikely and perhaps "risky" place to fall head over heels for a jet-setting adventurer--but Jenny Roberts did when she rescued Paul Conan Brant III.
Nevertheless, Jenny hardly approved of the thrill-seeking activity that landed him there. Fascinating he might be, but not, in Jenny's opinion, marriage material.
So when Paul volunteered to join her search-and-rescue team, Jenny held no illusions. He could have his little amusement--but not with her!
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