Lou Morgan, daughter of an American oil king, had just about everything youth, looks, and a great deal of money. All she needed was a good marriage and she intended to settle for nothing less than a title! So she set out for a tour of the high spots of Europe and in an Austrian winter sports resort met just the man she wanted, in the attractive person of the Baron Alex von Felden. Alex and Lou seemed made for each other-but unfortunately the Baron fell in love with the wrong girl; with Lou's penniless little companion, Valentine Brown. But he needed money to recoup his family fortunes. Would he really marry Valentine, when Lou could give him everything but love?
One of many pseudonyms used by Ida Julia Pollock, née Crowe.
Mrs. Pollack was a British writer of several short-stories and 125 romance novels that were published under her married name and under a number of different pseudonyms: Joan M. Allen; Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and Marguerite Bell. She has sold millions of copies over her 90-year career. She has been referred to as the "world's oldest novelist" who was still active at 105 and continued writing until her death.
Ida and her husband, Lt Colonel Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO (1888–1971), a veteran of war and Winston Churchill's collaborator and editor, had a daughter, Rosemary Pollock, who is also a romance writer.
The h is long-suffering and the H is a piece of selfish Eurotrash who acts like a pouty jerk on more than one occasion. I'm not sure if his love for the h has truly transformed him. However, this is a fun read, even as you find yourself sneering at the self-serving, emotionally immature H on occasion. I think it's because ultimately the h has the whip hand that this is a 2.5 star book and not a 1.5 one.
My first love fiction book, and it hooked me like mad. A story of a rich girl looking for a rich guy, finds the best match, but her assistant might be a slight interruption in completing the pair.
the story and plot does go well, you cannot predict the climax though till the half of the book, but then things start getting obvious.
This is a book for all of those teenage Mills & Boon fiction fans