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Rising River
Anne Carrington-Smythe was tired of being a rich socialite and wanted to do something useful -- so she got a job on a ranch she owned, under an assumed name.
She arrived at the ranch to find that the manager had the lowest possible opinion of his absentee owner!
She arrived at the ranch to find that the manager had the lowest possible opinion of his absentee owner!
188 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1954
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September 15, 2018
Meh. Nothing new here.
May 10, 2014
A lovely little story. It was written before the Harley imprints were so set in stone. This was a sweet story of a rich girl who goes in secret to one of her properties and takes a job as a cook. She falls in love with the head jackaroo. Of course he loves her back. They have some problems when it is discovered who she is but he gets over himself.
Old fashioned simple fun.
Old fashioned simple fun.
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May 10, 2022Anne Carrington-Smythe was tired of being a rich socialite and wanted to do something useful -- so she got a job on a ranch she owned, under an assumed name.
She arrived at the ranch to find that the manager had the lowest possible opinion of his absentee owner!
She arrived at the ranch to find that the manager had the lowest possible opinion of his absentee owner!
August 19, 2012
Rating Clarification: 2.5 Stars
As vintage Harley's go, this one's fair-to-middling. Mainly because the Harley hero is a bit of a dud. He's neither the classic alpha-male, angry-all-the-time-until-he-declares-his-love-douche nor the warm and steady, humorous KiSA (knight in shining armour) type. Actually, he was dull as dishwater. The rising river (from the book title) was more exciting then he turned out to be. In addition, I like reading these for the arm-chair traveling aspect that many of the older ones had (in this case, the Australian outback). OK in that respect, but again, I've read better descriptively scenic Harley's.
Anyway, these will never be great literature, but I needed a brief break of fluff before I began a re-read of Gone With the Wind.
As vintage Harley's go, this one's fair-to-middling. Mainly because the Harley hero is a bit of a dud. He's neither the classic alpha-male, angry-all-the-time-until-he-declares-his-love-douche nor the warm and steady, humorous KiSA (knight in shining armour) type. Actually, he was dull as dishwater. The rising river (from the book title) was more exciting then he turned out to be. In addition, I like reading these for the arm-chair traveling aspect that many of the older ones had (in this case, the Australian outback). OK in that respect, but again, I've read better descriptively scenic Harley's.
Anyway, these will never be great literature, but I needed a brief break of fluff before I began a re-read of Gone With the Wind.
August 18, 2025
The heroine (24) is interesting - she can fly a plane, looks refined in everything and has a good heart. The hero (32) is quite taciturn and initially it is hard to see why she falls for him as he's so rude to her. The deception over her real person is handled well and not dragged out. The river rising was quite stressful, but the HEA is charming, if a tad brief. I enjoyed the quirky characters and it kept me interested right till the end.
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