Doctor’s Daughter

by Jean S. MacLeod

To Christine Helmsdale, working at Kinaird as receptionist for her father, "Young Doctor John", it seemed that no third person could ever share the happy communion of spirit which was theirs — until the night of the storm.

Then, sweeping in on the crest of one of the worst floods the Western Highlands had ever known, came Huntley Treverson to confound all Christine's theories and confuse all her regulated thoughts. Trapped together in a shooting lodge, they spent a night in the hills, and from then onwards Christine's peaceful way of life was disrupted, her immunity to love torn asunder ...

Genres: Harlequin Romance

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1949

About the author

Jean Sutherland MacLeod was born in 20 January 1908 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Allen and John MacLeod. Her father, who was a civil engineer, moved with jobs. Her education began at Bearsden Academy, continued in Swansea and ended in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She moved to North Yorkshire, England to marry with Lionel Walton on 1 January 1935, an electricity board executive, who died in 1995. They had a son, David Walton, who died two years before her. She passed away on 11 April 2011 at 103 years.

Jean S. MacLeod started writing stories for the magazine The People's Friend, before sold her first romance novel in 1936. She wrote contemporary romances, most of them were set in her native Scotland, or in exotic places like Spain or Caribbean, places that she normally visited for documented. From 1948 to 1965, she also published under the pseudonym of Catherine Airlie. She published her last novel in 1996, a year after her husband death. She was member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, where she met the mediatic writer Barbara Cartland, who was not too friendly.

Reviews

[Naksed · Rating 2 out of 5]

A monster storm forces two strangers, the heroine and the hero, to shelter at an isolated hunting lodge deep in the woods all night long. The next morning, ugly rumors abound in the narrow-minded, conservative, gossipy Scottish village so the hero feels obliged by duty to propose to heroine. The heroine turns his pitiful offer flat. Hero leaves in a huff back to the bright lights of the big city of Glasgow but now his life of leisure as a lazy playboy surrounded by vapid, hard-hearted society debs starts to pale in comparison with the doe-eyed, pure, country lass heroine. This is a typical city mouse-country mouse love story between a perfect Mary Sue and a rather bland, unromantic hero who botches not just one but two proposals!

[Margo · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a pretty good book despite itself. The h falls in love with the H, a former black sheep who suddenly seems to realize the importance of growing up when he meets the frankly awesome h. The ending was really abrupt, although it focused on a secondary character -- so much so that I feel like I might have seen an abbreviated version.