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Όταν η Ραίητσελ Ντέβον ορφάνεψε στα δεκαεννιά της χρόνια κι έμεινε μόνη σ' ένα ερημικό νησί της Καραϊβικής, την περιμάζεψε στο πλοίο του, το "Ασημένιο Δελφίνι", ο Νάιαλ Χέρρικ, πιστεύοντας ότι, αν την παντρευόταν, θα τής έλυνε όλα τα προβλήματα. Η Ραίητσελ, σίγουρη ότι ο Νάιαλ την είχε παντρευτεί από οίκτο μονάχα, έγινε έξω φρενών όταν αντέδρασε στη σχέση της με τον Μπράντον Χαρτ. Με ποιο δικαίωμα τής στερούσε τη ζεστασιά μιας αθώας φιλίας; Εκείνος τι είχε να πει για την όμορφη και αδίστακτη Ναντίν Όουκχιλ;
- GenresHarlequin Romance
191 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1963
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About the author
Anne Weale
218 books49 followersJay Blakeney
aka Anne Weale, Andrea Blake
Jay Blakeney was born on Juny 20, 1929. Her great-grandfather was a well-known writer on moral theology, so perhaps she inherited her writing gene from him. She was "talking stories" to herself long before she could read. When she was still at school, she sold her first short stories to a woman's magazine and she feels she was destined to write. Decided to became a writer, she started writing for newspapers and magazines.
At 21, Jay was a newspaper reporter with a career plan, but the man she was wildly in love with announced that he was off to the other side of the world. He thought they should either marry or say goodbye. She always believed that true love could last a lifetime, and she felt that wonderful men were much harder to find than good jobs, so she put her career on hold. What a wise decision it was! She felt that new young women seem less inclined to risk everything for love than her generation.
Together they traveled the world. If she hadn't spent part of her bridal year living on the edge of a jungle in Malaysia, she might never have become a romance writer. That isolated house, and the perils of the state of emergency that existed in the country at that time, gave her a background and plot ideally suited to a genre she had never read until she came across some romances in the library of a country club they sometimes visited. She can write about love with the even stronger conviction that comes from experience.
When they returned to Europe, Jay resumed her career as a journalist, writing her first romance in her spare time. She sold her first novel as Anne Weale to Mills and Boon in 1955 at the age of 24. At 30, with seven books published, she "retired" to have a baby and become a full-time writer. She raised a delightful son, David, who is as adventurous as his father. Her husband and son have even climbed in the Andes and the Himalayas, giving her lots of ideas for stories. When she retired from reporting, her fiction income -- a combination of amounts earned as a Mills & Boon author and writing for magazines such as Woman's Illustrated, which serialized the work of authors -- exceed 1,000 pounds a year.
She was a founding member of the The Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2002 she published her last novel, in total, she wrote 88 novels. She also wrote under the pseudonym Andrea Blake. She loved setting her novels in exotic parts of the world, but specially in The Caribbean and in her beloved Spain. Since 1989, Jay spent most of the winter months in a very small "pueblo" in the backwoods of Spain. During years, she visited some villages, and from each she have borrowed some feature - a fountain, a street, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create some places like Valdecarrasca, that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of rural Spain she knew best. She loved walking, reading, sketching, sewing (curtains and slipcovers) and doing needlepoint, gardening, entertaining friends, visiting art galleries and museums, writing letters, surfing the Net, traveling in search of exciting locations for future books, eating delicious food and drinking good wine, cataloguing her books.
She wrote a regular website review column for The Bookseller from 1998 to 2004, before starting her own blog Bookworm on the Net. At the time of her death, on October 24, 2007, she was working on her autobiography "88 Heroes... 1 Mr. Right".
aka Anne Weale, Andrea Blake
Jay Blakeney was born on Juny 20, 1929. Her great-grandfather was a well-known writer on moral theology, so perhaps she inherited her writing gene from him. She was "talking stories" to herself long before she could read. When she was still at school, she sold her first short stories to a woman's magazine and she feels she was destined to write. Decided to became a writer, she started writing for newspapers and magazines.
At 21, Jay was a newspaper reporter with a career plan, but the man she was wildly in love with announced that he was off to the other side of the world. He thought they should either marry or say goodbye. She always believed that true love could last a lifetime, and she felt that wonderful men were much harder to find than good jobs, so she put her career on hold. What a wise decision it was! She felt that new young women seem less inclined to risk everything for love than her generation.
Together they traveled the world. If she hadn't spent part of her bridal year living on the edge of a jungle in Malaysia, she might never have become a romance writer. That isolated house, and the perils of the state of emergency that existed in the country at that time, gave her a background and plot ideally suited to a genre she had never read until she came across some romances in the library of a country club they sometimes visited. She can write about love with the even stronger conviction that comes from experience.
When they returned to Europe, Jay resumed her career as a journalist, writing her first romance in her spare time. She sold her first novel as Anne Weale to Mills and Boon in 1955 at the age of 24. At 30, with seven books published, she "retired" to have a baby and become a full-time writer. She raised a delightful son, David, who is as adventurous as his father. Her husband and son have even climbed in the Andes and the Himalayas, giving her lots of ideas for stories. When she retired from reporting, her fiction income -- a combination of amounts earned as a Mills & Boon author and writing for magazines such as Woman's Illustrated, which serialized the work of authors -- exceed 1,000 pounds a year.
She was a founding member of the The Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2002 she published her last novel, in total, she wrote 88 novels. She also wrote under the pseudonym Andrea Blake. She loved setting her novels in exotic parts of the world, but specially in The Caribbean and in her beloved Spain. Since 1989, Jay spent most of the winter months in a very small "pueblo" in the backwoods of Spain. During years, she visited some villages, and from each she have borrowed some feature - a fountain, a street, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create some places like Valdecarrasca, that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of rural Spain she knew best. She loved walking, reading, sketching, sewing (curtains and slipcovers) and doing needlepoint, gardening, entertaining friends, visiting art galleries and museums, writing letters, surfing the Net, traveling in search of exciting locations for future books, eating delicious food and drinking good wine, cataloguing her books.
She wrote a regular website review column for The Bookseller from 1998 to 2004, before starting her own blog Bookworm on the Net. At the time of her death, on October 24, 2007, she was working on her autobiography "88 Heroes... 1 Mr. Right".
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May 28, 2025
Vintage age-gap romance on the high seas, between a virginal, nubile, island girl and an older, worldly, and cynical sea captain. We get the typical Anne Weale travelogue in the Carribean seas, a marriage of convenience, a horrible OW, a reformed rake OM, and many Great, Big, Terrible Misunderstandings. The story begins when the heroine, recently orphaned, stows away on the hero's boat. The hero discovers her on board and agrees to take her to Bermuda with him so that she can hopefully track down long-lost relatives, or in the alternative, find some kind of job to support herself. Not surprisingly, these two slowly fall in love as they sail their boat and stop by the many islands in the region, though they don’t confess to their feelings.
Suddenly, the hero springs a marriage proposal on the heroine, couching it in "convenience" terms.
When the heroine laughs at him in disbelief, his pain and embarrassment are so palpable, they are moving. The heroine was not mocking him, she was reacting with shock because she didn't consider herself worthy of him. These two nincompoops were in love with each other but too afraid to admit it, hence all the misunderstandings.
The heroine eventually agrees to marry him, though she worries whether she can truly make him happy. She thinks his proposal is a sacrifice on his behalf to rescue the damsel in distress. Not even his gifting of a lovely silver dolphin on a fragile chain as an engagement present can dispel her insecurities.
The bride and groom have a series of Great, Big Terrible Misunderstandings, which are further exacerbated by the villainous OW, an ex-fiancee of the hero, who has slithered back into hero's life to try to sink her fangs into him again. There is also a besotted OM on the scene, a nice guy who could probably star in his own "reformed rake" story. Added to the mix is the heroine's mother, a golddigging hall of famer who had long ago abandoned her family for her lover, when the heroine was a child. A now older, wiser, and disillusioned woman, she advises the heroine not to let women like the hero's ex-fiancee come between her and her happiness, because these types of women need to be pitied rather than be reviled.
The hero and heroine eventually figure things out and we leave them for a nice HEA. I liked this one because the author conveyed their love and happy ending.
Suddenly, the hero springs a marriage proposal on the heroine, couching it in "convenience" terms.
When the heroine laughs at him in disbelief, his pain and embarrassment are so palpable, they are moving. The heroine was not mocking him, she was reacting with shock because she didn't consider herself worthy of him. These two nincompoops were in love with each other but too afraid to admit it, hence all the misunderstandings.
The heroine eventually agrees to marry him, though she worries whether she can truly make him happy. She thinks his proposal is a sacrifice on his behalf to rescue the damsel in distress. Not even his gifting of a lovely silver dolphin on a fragile chain as an engagement present can dispel her insecurities.
The bride and groom have a series of Great, Big Terrible Misunderstandings, which are further exacerbated by the villainous OW, an ex-fiancee of the hero, who has slithered back into hero's life to try to sink her fangs into him again. There is also a besotted OM on the scene, a nice guy who could probably star in his own "reformed rake" story. Added to the mix is the heroine's mother, a golddigging hall of famer who had long ago abandoned her family for her lover, when the heroine was a child. A now older, wiser, and disillusioned woman, she advises the heroine not to let women like the hero's ex-fiancee come between her and her happiness, because these types of women need to be pitied rather than be reviled.
The hero and heroine eventually figure things out and we leave them for a nice HEA. I liked this one because the author conveyed their love and happy ending.
March 6, 2012
4 Stars! ~ I'm thoroughly enjoying the much older Harlequins. This one by Anne Weale is a lovely story of a young woman who stows away on the ship of a young man she loves when she suddenly finds herself homeless and alone. When Niall proposes marriage to Rachel, she doesn't have any illusions that he returns her love, but she accepts. Once married she finds herself swept off to his home in Bermuda where, Niall is a man of great wealth. As Rachel fights her insecurities, she slowly comes to her own, and begins to wonder if Niall regrets marrying her. This was a sweet and charming lovestory. One I'm sure I'll read again.
October 17, 2017
I've been enjoying Anne Weale lately but this was terribly bland. It started off well enough but the second half became rather silly. At this point there was minimal interaction between the Hero and the heroine and little to no communication. I just wanted to get out of the heroine's POV and yell, "what are you a freaking psychologist?".
Redeeming quality- I liked the description of the locale.
Redeeming quality- I liked the description of the locale.
February 6, 2016
3.5 Rachel was raised on a secluded island in the Caribbean, her way of life is threatened when her father suddenly dies. To stay in the islands she runs away with Niall, then eventually agrees to a marriage of convenience. Rachel was naive and ignorant about the world outside her island, but was brave when thrust into new surroundings. Niall was a nice hero, he was supportive of her and not a jerk. There was no great misunderstanding between them even when others manufactured compromising situations. Niall was patient with Rachel, never angry with her. Rachel did come off childish sometimes, but she was very young and inexperienced.
May 25, 2025
"The Silver Dolphin" is the story of Rachel and Niall.
The heroine is unexpectedly left orphaned in a remote Caribbean island after her father passes away. Forced to go with missionaries, she decides to run away in a small boat owned by the hero, a sea captain who visited them. The hero is not shocked finding a runaway docked with him, and decides to give her shelter. Circumstances lead to a marriage of convenience, but the heroine finds herself falling for the hero.
He soon takes her to his home, where we meet other characters- a temperamental sister, a catty OW, an arduous OM. We see the hero treat the heroine like a roommate, while she is completely unaware of her own charms and underestimates her abilities, while finding good in everyone else.
Many instances of the hero caring for the heroine, some jealous fits, drama, miscommunications that sort themselves and a dramatic ending.
The age gap might be an issue for many (17 h and 30 H), but overall a pleasant romance with no forced intimate scenes and pretty tolerable characters. Beware that POC characters are specifically mentioned by their race but it just tells you how dated this is. Also felt like I was travelling on the sea and islands with them.
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4/5
The heroine is unexpectedly left orphaned in a remote Caribbean island after her father passes away. Forced to go with missionaries, she decides to run away in a small boat owned by the hero, a sea captain who visited them. The hero is not shocked finding a runaway docked with him, and decides to give her shelter. Circumstances lead to a marriage of convenience, but the heroine finds herself falling for the hero.
He soon takes her to his home, where we meet other characters- a temperamental sister, a catty OW, an arduous OM. We see the hero treat the heroine like a roommate, while she is completely unaware of her own charms and underestimates her abilities, while finding good in everyone else.
Many instances of the hero caring for the heroine, some jealous fits, drama, miscommunications that sort themselves and a dramatic ending.
The age gap might be an issue for many (17 h and 30 H), but overall a pleasant romance with no forced intimate scenes and pretty tolerable characters. Beware that POC characters are specifically mentioned by their race but it just tells you how dated this is. Also felt like I was travelling on the sea and islands with them.
Safe
4/5
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June 1, 2021When Rachel Devon was left orphaned on a lonely Caribbean island, an inexperienced nineteen-year-old, she was rescued by Niall Herrick, captain of the yacht "Silver Dolphin." Niall thought he could solve her problems by taking her to Bermuda and marrying her, but his solution did not turn out to be a happy one. Stifled by the unexpected luxury of her new surroundings, her marriage still only one of convenience, Rachel was thankful to find a friend in Brandon Hart. But Niall forbade the friendship. Convinced that Niall had married her only out of pity and not for love, Rachel was furious. What right had he to dictate to her? And what about his own friendship with the beautiful and unscrupulous Nadine Oakhill?
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