Ερωτιάρικο φεγγάρι

by Kerry Allyne

Η απόφασή της να παραιτηθεί από το δικηγορικό γραφείο όπου εργαζόταν, για να πάει στον απομακρυσμένο κτηνοτροφικό σταθμό του ποταμού Αρούνγκα, ήταν μια μεγάλη αλλαγή στη ζωή της Ίντεν. Αλλά την απόφασή της να ζήσει κοντά στη φύση, αντιμετωπισε με ιδιαίτερη καχυποψία ο αρρενωπός διευθυντής του σταθμού. Γι' αυτόν η Ίντεν ήταν μια κακομαθημένη και μαλθακή κοπέλα της πόλης που δεν είχε καμιά θέση εκεί. Κι όταν εκείνη με τη δουλειά της του απέδειξε πως έκανε λάθος, ο Κουρτ δεν πείστηκε. Το μόνο που παραδέχτηκε ήταν ότι δεν είχε γνωρίσει ποτέ του ένα τόσο διαβολεμένο θηλυκό όπως η Ίντεν!...

Genres: Harlequin Romance, Romance, Australia, Harlequin

155 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1987

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]

Odd story. I think because of the murky motivations of the characters.

Questions that were never fully explained:
*Why did the heroine leave her secretarial job to be a tourism manager of a campsite based only on the word of an acquaintance (hero’s stepbrother)?
*Why did stepbrother lie about the job?
*Why did stepbrother care if h got the job or kept it?
*What was the point of stepbrother interfering with the H’s business? I couldn’t tell if he was trying to help or hurt him.

I like a heroine-proving-herself-to-the-hero kind of scenario as well as a hero with a mistaken idea about the heroine’s sexual past, but this plot fell flat. Heroine kept messing up (wild pig, cattle branding and getting lost to name a few). Hero was unfair and uninteresting. Stepbrother had way too many scenes.

Setting was interesting, though.

[RomLibrary · Rating 2 out of 5]

From a staid lawyers office to a cattle station in the Far North of Australia was quite a leap for Eden. But she looked forward to the new job that her friend Alick had found for her at Arrunga River Station and was confident that she would do it well. Court Buchanan, the forceful manager of Arrunga River, had other ideas, however. To him Eden was just the latest in a long line of Alicks discarded girl-friends. How could she convince him that it wasn’t true? And did Courts opinion of her really matter?

[Kerry Allyne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alick Seaton had promised Eden Challinor the position of Tourist Manager on his brother in law’s cattle station-cum-tourist resort, Aarrunga River Station. It was up to Eden to convince the owner Court Buchanan that she could do the job and she was not one of Alick’s cast-off girlfriends.

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[Myrna · Rating 3 out of 5]

`You don't have to agree to it if-if you'd really rather not,' she offered helplessly.
`So why should I make this time an exception?' he countered with satiric humour. `I seem to have done nothing but accede to suggestions I haven't been in agreement with ever since you arrived!'
Eden dropped her gaze. `I'm sorry. I really wasn't meaning to...'
'Forget it, honey!' Court interrupted to instruct roughly, and when she looked up it was to see him running a hand wearily around the back of his neck. 'It's not your fault. I guess I'm just having difficulty reconciling myself to the irreconcilable.'
Her forehead creased with a frown.
`I don't follow you.'
`Well, maybe I should be thankful for that at least,' he quipped, but no less cryptically than with his original remark as far as Eden was concerned.

Cute!
Alick offers Eden a post of a tourist manager at his step-brother's ranch. When she arrives, she finds out there's no such post at all. Court allows her to temporally stay to take some advertisement photos. A few weeks later the h finds out everyone believes she’s Alick’s lover. Why would Alick deceive her so?

[Mudpie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eden was only 22, very young and innocent, even ignorant when it came to life on a cattle farm. Look at all the mess she created and got into, because she was trying to be helpful or worse, trying too hard to prove herself. It's hard to know you are unwanted, here on sufferance. But it wouldn't hurt to take a couple of days to know the lay of the land, and observe before charging headlong into trouble!

I don't blame Court for not being nice to Eden. We only found out at 86% just why Court was so prickly and reluctant to give in to his attraction for Eden, for it was obvious he'd been interested and fighting it. Look at the kisses they shared! Scorching hot!

Turned out elder stepbrother Alick had the bad habit of dumping his discarded girlfriends at the homestead/station! Usually the women got over the absent Alick fast and turned their attention to the hot Court! So no thanks to Alick for telling Eden to run after Court in order to get her job defined! Haha...But all had to agree it's a first that Alick had personally came with a woman (Eden) and he got her a job at the cattle station, another first. Thus it led Court to believe Alick was " rewarding his very special girl".

But by then, Court had not cared. He really loved Eden and would take her as she was...Eden's love for Court was baffling too LOL. He was only nice to her when he had shown her the huge estuary crocodiles after she got lost..
Oh and that kiss hehe...

The settings were beautifully described, I can understand why Eden did not just drive off after Court apparently rejected her beautiful photographs in spite of being impressed. Arrunga River Station was just too beautiful.

[Urmi Ashutosh · Rating 5 out of 5]

A sweet book

I have always enjoyed Kerry Allyne's book. She has a way of developing the relationship between the male and female protagonists which is sweet and touching. It's wonderful that her books are on Kindle Unlimited

[Last Chance Saloon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another wonderful story from Kerry Allyne with a fun heroine (22) who is beautiful, determined and quirky and a muscular, handsome and smitten hero (early 30s). The misunderstanding is caused by the hero's stepbrother who implies the heroine is another one of his discarded lovers and hence the hero fights the overwhelming attraction until the wonderful HEA.
One of my favourites, read many times - 5 stars.

[PAINTED BOX]

Was there nothing that would please this man!

It was love at first sight when Eden landed at the tropical Australian cattle station on the Carpentaria Gulf. She knew she wanted to stay forever.

But Eden quickly learned that only one person at Arrunga River Station did the hiring
Court Buchanan, not his stepbrother, Alick, who had offered her the job as tourist manager.

And even when "the Boss" consented to a trial period, Eden began to wonder just what it would take to win this man's approval!