Disastrous encounter

by Kerry Allyne

Clancy viewed things realisticallyIt was easy enough for Ronan King to claim that Barrett Sutherland, his employer, had wanted this meeting for years. But Clancy couldn't believe that a father who really cared about his daughter could ignore her the way Barrett did.Why had it taken a chance meeting at Mildura to bring them together at last? And where did Ronan stand?If Ronan's sympathy for Barrett was because they shared the same cynical attitude toward women - then Clancy knew she had to keep her distance. It would be disastrous to fall in love with such a man...

Genres: Harlequin Romance

187 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Kerry Allyne was born in England, UK. Her early childhood was uneventful, she remembered, until her father came home one day and began talking about emigrating to Australia. When they eventually arrived in Australia, Kerry took to her new land with a passion. During the family's first years "down under," she explored as much of the country as she could, journeying northward into Queensland and out onto the Great Barrier Reef, and sometimes south through New South Wales into Victoria. As a adult she returned to England for a short time. A long working holiday enabled her to travel the world before returning to Australia where she met her engineer husband-to-be, and they had a couple of children. The family eventually moved to a rural area and she started to write. She used the people and countryside as inspiration for her romances. She was published by Mills & Boon from 1976 to 1994.

Reviews

[StMargarets · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yikes. What an unlikeable heroine. She was fed poison by her mother about her bio-dad her whole life and she was not willing to let go of that bitterness until the end.

Ironically, she met the hero and her father, a fruit farmer(?), while she was picking grapes (of wrath).

Handsy hero kissed her into submission when he found her sneaking around her father's orchards at night. Heroine liked it until she didn't. Hero recognized her from a photo in her father's office and alerted her father that his ungrateful daughter was in the vicinity.

Dear old dad is full of love and understanding for his bitter daughter. Hero is full of lust. Heroine is full of anger and resisting any softer feelings.

It's all very tiresome and I found myself skimming.

Skip if you don't like bickering.

[Annarose · Rating 3 out of 5]

Clancy's reluctance to go to Mildura to work as a fruit picker when her friend Lisa suggested it was not because she had better things to do after the death of her mother and stepfather. It was becuase Mildura was the place where her real father was; the father who rejected her even before she was born! When she eventually went there, thought, courisoty got the better of her and she sneeked into his plantation farm to have a glimse of how he looked like. Unfortunatelly, she was caught by his overbearing farm manager, Ronan King, who not only assumed she was having a secret romantic meeting with one of the farm men, but also proceeded to seduce her and succeeded! No sooner that she fled that she was found the following morning and brought rethlessly by Ronan himself to meet her father, and from that moment on everything in her life seemed to be controlled by Ronan's decisions, which Cancy voed to fight all the way long!

An enjoyable story to a great extant with intense and interesting events. Recommanded read for sure.

[More Books Than Time]

DNF, read enough beginning to see h was immature selfish, skipped to ending and found h did not grow up.

[Sylvia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Modern

[Layla · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not enough smut.