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Όταν η Πέητζ ξεκινούσε για το αγρόκτημα τού Στιούαρτ, πραγματοποιούσε ένα παλιό όνειρο τής ζωής της, να γνωρίσει τη χώρα. Ωστόσο, μετά από τρεισήμιση μέρες ταξίδι βρέθηκε στο έλεος τού Κέλυ Σίνκλερ, με μοναδικά υπάρχοντά της τα ρούχα που φορούσε. Όλα της τ' άλλα πράγματα είχαν παρασυρθεί από την πλημμύρα. Η προοπτική ήταν μάλλον άσχημη: θα έμενε μ' αυτόν τον αυταρχικό άντρα πάνω από ένα μήνα, σ' ένα ερημικό σπίτι. Το μόνο που την έσωζε ήταν να μην τον αφήσει να της πάρει τον αέρα, πράγμα που δε φαινόταν και τόσο εύκολο γιατί εξασκούσε πάνω της μια παράξενη γοητεία...
151 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
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Kerry Allyne
69 books49 followersKerry 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.
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January 14, 2016
This is on open library, but it's filed under unknown author. I wasn't sure if I was going to like this at the beginning. The heroine, a city girl, doesn't take the advice of the hero before venturing out in the Outback. She doesn't take his advice because he's too arrogant and handsome? Okay. Anyway, girlfriend gets stuck. Hero rescues her and they end up together at an outstation where the hero has ample time to taunt her all day about her city and gold-digging ways and she tries to deny her attraction to him. The usual. The narrative picks up when:
February 21, 2018
This is an old skool HP clean romance - no sex scenes. Yet, at no point of time did I find it boring. And, I find that amazing because for two-thirds of the book there were no other characters besides the hero-heroine, unless one considers the brief appearance of the hotel proprietor where the two stayed overnight. It was just the two of them in total isolation for almost three weeks, driving each other mad and amazingly coming away without killing each other.
Paige Darling has an invitation from Stuart Thornton, one of her cousin's friend, to attend the annual picnic races and grand ball that's held at his homestead in the outback called Grenvale Station. Wanting an outback experience, Paige heads off to Grenvale even though her cousin and the other friends cancel at the last minute. About a hundred odd miles to Grenvale, a heavy downpour makes driving difficult and so she end up staying at a hotel at the first town. When she asks the hotel proprietor if the weather would clear up, he introduces her to Kelly Sinclair of Bindaburra station, Grenvale's neighbouring cattle station, so as to guide her.
Kelly seeing that she's a city-girl tells her to go back as she was out of her element in the outback. When she insists on going to Grenvale, he's suspicious of her motives and asks her if Stuart is the reason she was desperate to go to Grenvale. Ticked off by his condescending attitude and assuming him to be a stockman she tells him she's not interested in discussing her personal business with him. She's made up her mind against heeding his advice, even more so, when she wakes up to a clear and bright morning. She would've told the high-and-mighty Kelly Sinclair a 'I told you so,' but the proprietor tells her he'd already left for Bindaburra the previous night.
She takes off for Grenvale and decides to follow the distinct tracks made by Kelly's Land Cruiser until the turn toward Grenvale, but midway she's caught in a sudden deluge. She had to leave her car and perch herself on a high ridge where she spent almost the entire afternoon, frightened and soaked to the skin until she sees a man on a horse making his way toward her. Her rescuer was none other than the man whose advice she'd refused to take the previous day. He takes her to Bindaburra station, telling her they would have to wait out there until the floods clear --which could take weeks-- and then leave for the head station, Ainslie. She finds to her dismay that Bindaburra is nothing but a boundary rider's hut with a few other outbuildings and not a person in sight.
Paige wanted an outback experience and what an experience she gets. After having lost her clothes, money, car, everything in the floodwaters coming away only with her life, she had to double ride on a horse who disliked her as much as his master, the iron hardness of his back making it absolutely difficult for her to move, further eaten alive by mosquitoes, encountering a nasty bull who sends her scrambling up a tree. Furthermore, she had to share a bed, which wasn't even a double bed, with the big, overbearing man and having left with no clothes, she had to make her own clothes from bed sheets using only a needle and thread. The scene where she goes to sleep with the sheets bound tightly around her like a mummy and their conversation the next day where Kelly tells her how exactly he found her when he awoke in the morning had me in splits.
Having been married to a city-girl, who was a brazen opportunist, and having seen avaricious women coming every year to attend the annual races and ball hoping to hook some eligible bachelor with as large an acreage as possible, Kelly thinks Paige is one of them, who wasn't going to let something as unimportant as a flood put a halt to her avaricious schemes. Paige further endorses his assumption by declaring, `There's nothing wrong in wanting to improve one's lot in life, Mr Sinclair, and if some of these eligible bachelors have been hooked, as you describe it, then I daresay they were quite willing to have it that way. Even in the outback it is still the man who does the proposing, isn't it?
He was a beast with his taunts, but she was no shrinking violet. She meets his taunts with a taunt. I quite enjoyed their verbal sparring and loved the scene where Mercury, Kelly's horse, kicks the two of them to the ground --Paige ending up on top of Kelly- effectively bringing an end to their sparring and letting their passion take over culminating into a sensual kiss.
With Kelly's sardonic wit and Paige constantly doing impulsively things in her determination to avoid his arrogant dictates or not wanting to heed his advice --like the one where she gropes in the dark for the light switch instead of asking him-- we have quite a hilarious entertainment. For those times when he was calm and placid, she'd do something to goad him like the one where she deliberately took her time in the bathroom knowing he was waiting to take his shower. Not to forget the funny scene while they playing chess - her cheating . The only time she went silent was when she overhears Kelly talk lovingly to a woman --who happened to be his sister Suzanna-- over the transceiver and realizes she's jealous and madly in love with him.
The only thing that didn't sit well with me about her was her readiness to raise her hand. The first time she tried to slap Kelly, she ended up hurt when he blocked it with his arm and accidentally knocked her down. The second time was that wallop she gave him in front of his mother, sister, ex-wife and all their guests when they reached the main homestead. I can understand her fury on discovering his real identity and feeling like a fool he'd misled her by omission, letting her carry on with her assumption, but I didn't like her slapping him for it. With his ex-wife, who's hoping for a second chance with him, also slapping Paige later on, their homecoming turned out to be quite a slap-fest.
And, where in Bindaburra they were constantly bantering, fighting, amusing each other and the reader, at Ainslie they barely exchanged few words. I liked the end scene where Kelly finds Paige crying all over Mercury, the horse she didn't like riding.
What I don't like about these vintage HPs is their abrupt ending and no epilogue. Would have loved to see a little more of them together at the main homestead. I liked Kelly's mother and sister. Despite the slap, they were nice to Paige
And, I loved Kelly and Paige. They made an awesome pair. Overall, I found it a very entertaining read.
Paige Darling has an invitation from Stuart Thornton, one of her cousin's friend, to attend the annual picnic races and grand ball that's held at his homestead in the outback called Grenvale Station. Wanting an outback experience, Paige heads off to Grenvale even though her cousin and the other friends cancel at the last minute. About a hundred odd miles to Grenvale, a heavy downpour makes driving difficult and so she end up staying at a hotel at the first town. When she asks the hotel proprietor if the weather would clear up, he introduces her to Kelly Sinclair of Bindaburra station, Grenvale's neighbouring cattle station, so as to guide her.
Kelly seeing that she's a city-girl tells her to go back as she was out of her element in the outback. When she insists on going to Grenvale, he's suspicious of her motives and asks her if Stuart is the reason she was desperate to go to Grenvale. Ticked off by his condescending attitude and assuming him to be a stockman she tells him she's not interested in discussing her personal business with him. She's made up her mind against heeding his advice, even more so, when she wakes up to a clear and bright morning. She would've told the high-and-mighty Kelly Sinclair a 'I told you so,' but the proprietor tells her he'd already left for Bindaburra the previous night.
She takes off for Grenvale and decides to follow the distinct tracks made by Kelly's Land Cruiser until the turn toward Grenvale, but midway she's caught in a sudden deluge. She had to leave her car and perch herself on a high ridge where she spent almost the entire afternoon, frightened and soaked to the skin until she sees a man on a horse making his way toward her. Her rescuer was none other than the man whose advice she'd refused to take the previous day. He takes her to Bindaburra station, telling her they would have to wait out there until the floods clear --which could take weeks-- and then leave for the head station, Ainslie. She finds to her dismay that Bindaburra is nothing but a boundary rider's hut with a few other outbuildings and not a person in sight.
Paige wanted an outback experience and what an experience she gets. After having lost her clothes, money, car, everything in the floodwaters coming away only with her life, she had to double ride on a horse who disliked her as much as his master, the iron hardness of his back making it absolutely difficult for her to move, further eaten alive by mosquitoes, encountering a nasty bull who sends her scrambling up a tree. Furthermore, she had to share a bed, which wasn't even a double bed, with the big, overbearing man and having left with no clothes, she had to make her own clothes from bed sheets using only a needle and thread. The scene where she goes to sleep with the sheets bound tightly around her like a mummy and their conversation the next day where Kelly tells her how exactly he found her when he awoke in the morning had me in splits.
Having been married to a city-girl, who was a brazen opportunist, and having seen avaricious women coming every year to attend the annual races and ball hoping to hook some eligible bachelor with as large an acreage as possible, Kelly thinks Paige is one of them, who wasn't going to let something as unimportant as a flood put a halt to her avaricious schemes. Paige further endorses his assumption by declaring, `There's nothing wrong in wanting to improve one's lot in life, Mr Sinclair, and if some of these eligible bachelors have been hooked, as you describe it, then I daresay they were quite willing to have it that way. Even in the outback it is still the man who does the proposing, isn't it?
He was a beast with his taunts, but she was no shrinking violet. She meets his taunts with a taunt. I quite enjoyed their verbal sparring and loved the scene where Mercury, Kelly's horse, kicks the two of them to the ground --Paige ending up on top of Kelly- effectively bringing an end to their sparring and letting their passion take over culminating into a sensual kiss.
With Kelly's sardonic wit and Paige constantly doing impulsively things in her determination to avoid his arrogant dictates or not wanting to heed his advice --like the one where she gropes in the dark for the light switch instead of asking him-- we have quite a hilarious entertainment. For those times when he was calm and placid, she'd do something to goad him like the one where she deliberately took her time in the bathroom knowing he was waiting to take his shower. Not to forget the funny scene while they playing chess - her cheating . The only time she went silent was when she overhears Kelly talk lovingly to a woman --who happened to be his sister Suzanna-- over the transceiver and realizes she's jealous and madly in love with him.
The only thing that didn't sit well with me about her was her readiness to raise her hand. The first time she tried to slap Kelly, she ended up hurt when he blocked it with his arm and accidentally knocked her down. The second time was that wallop she gave him in front of his mother, sister, ex-wife and all their guests when they reached the main homestead. I can understand her fury on discovering his real identity and feeling like a fool he'd misled her by omission, letting her carry on with her assumption, but I didn't like her slapping him for it. With his ex-wife, who's hoping for a second chance with him, also slapping Paige later on, their homecoming turned out to be quite a slap-fest.
And, where in Bindaburra they were constantly bantering, fighting, amusing each other and the reader, at Ainslie they barely exchanged few words. I liked the end scene where Kelly finds Paige crying all over Mercury, the horse she didn't like riding.
What I don't like about these vintage HPs is their abrupt ending and no epilogue. Would have loved to see a little more of them together at the main homestead. I liked Kelly's mother and sister. Despite the slap, they were nice to Paige
And, I loved Kelly and Paige. They made an awesome pair. Overall, I found it a very entertaining read.
May 31, 2022
once in a while, (and for some reason always after i take a break from reading romance) the romance gods decide to bless me and I stumble onto a book that reads like a really great romantic movie and this was exactly it. couldn’t put it down until i finished it!
July 24, 2024
'And there were you, criticising Bruce Morgan and quoting, "I don't like monopolies," at every turn ... but which I would like to make clear once and for all, it is not! Can youwonder at my reluctance to drop a bombshell of the magnitude my true identity would have been?' He laughed self-mockingly. `Not having expected you to show any interest in a mere stockman, I then found myself caught in a trap of my own making because I was, quite frankly, too damned scared to tell you the truth in case I lost you altogether as a result of it!'
Oh, please...
A h gets stranded with the H, believing he's a mere stockman. After 3 weeks they arrive at his grand house and the h is incensed.
The h slaps the H’s face right in front of all his guests. So melodramatic...
Then his ex-wife slaps her face.
And abrupt HEA comes.
Oh, please...
A h gets stranded with the H, believing he's a mere stockman. After 3 weeks they arrive at his grand house and the h is incensed.
The h slaps the H’s face right in front of all his guests. So melodramatic...
Then his ex-wife slaps her face.
And abrupt HEA comes.
April 7, 2019
Go back to the city where you belong,' ordered Kelly Sinclair contemptuously when Paige made an impulsive journey from Sydney to the outback. And Paige would by then have been only too glad to oblige - she didn't want to be in this disagreeable man's company any longer than she could help - but fate forestalled her, with disastrous results...
June 10, 2018
Ive actually read this book before. I could not stop looking forward to reading it again. I like Paige Darling,she is daring, she has guts. Kelly Sinclair is a sarcastic Chimp,he always finds a way out to get on Paige nerves. Very funny confused people they both are. But I thought the author would give us something much better, you know Kelly telling Nadine he has engaged Paige, and Nadine ready to leave.
May 7, 2024
Um fazendeiro australiano ajuda uma garota da cidade no interior da Austrália durante uma inundação. Eles ficam ilhados numa casa e entre farpas e beijos se apaixonam. O mocinho é meio xucro às vezes mas nada do nível dos cavalões da Diane Palmer. Só achei o final corrido. E a ex-mulher continuaria a frequentar a fazenda? Queria que a autora deixasse as coisas esclarecidas. Divertido e teve até barraco digno de novelas.
November 27, 2024
A vapid heroine who likes to slap her hero ends up with the smug hero who already has had one ex-wife who slaps.
I really disliked this one. There are 1) no interesting scenarios 2) killing an animal 3) no interesting clothes nor food 4) no chemistry 5) ex-wife stays at hero's home at the same time, belittles heroine and gets no comeuppance 6) no OM to take the hero down a peg 7) heroine has no talents to share 8) hero has too much money
Really dreary, and lacking romance and charm.
I really disliked this one. There are 1) no interesting scenarios 2) killing an animal 3) no interesting clothes nor food 4) no chemistry 5) ex-wife stays at hero's home at the same time, belittles heroine and gets no comeuppance 6) no OM to take the hero down a peg 7) heroine has no talents to share 8) hero has too much money
Really dreary, and lacking romance and charm.
August 9, 2023
First read this book in 1980. It started a life long love affair with the genre and certain authors. I’ve read this book 100 times in the last 40 years and it’s still a goody today. Highly recommend. They don’t make ‘Em like they used to!
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July 17, 2020Easy to read. h seemed to be sweet
February 23, 2023
I particularly liked the Australian ones. Really entertaining. Read it in one go.
August 27, 2023
06/22/2001
March 31, 2013
Paige was going to attend the ball at Greenvale Station and neither flood nor sage advice was going to prevent this. Simply follow the road to the turn-off and keep going; soon there was no turn-off then no road and finally no motor vehicle…
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