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Master of Uluru
Why couldn't he leave her alone?
When Jamie Prentiss first met Logan in the Australian outback, she knew immediately he wasn't the sort of man for her. And handsome, arrogant Logan made it clear that he considered her a mere child.
His taste in women obviously ran to rich, exotic types -- like Sacha Andreas.
But if that was true, why did he seem to appear everywhere Jamie went? And why had his kiss seemed like a promise?
When Jamie Prentiss first met Logan in the Australian outback, she knew immediately he wasn't the sort of man for her. And handsome, arrogant Logan made it clear that he considered her a mere child.
His taste in women obviously ran to rich, exotic types -- like Sacha Andreas.
But if that was true, why did he seem to appear everywhere Jamie went? And why had his kiss seemed like a promise?
189 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1980
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About the author
Helen Bianchin
380 books229 followersHelen Shirley was born on February 20 1939 in New Zealand, where she grew up, an only child possessed by a vivid imagination and a love for reading. She wrote stories for amusement in her early teenage years, and when she left leaving school, she took a secretarial job at a father-and-son legal firm.
At age twenty-one Helen joined a girlfriend and embarked on a working holiday in Australia, travelling via cruise ship from Auckland to Melbourne. Alas, no shipboard romance, as she spent all four days in her cabin suffering from sea-sickness! After fifteen months working in Melbourne, Helen and her friend bought a vehicle and took three months to drive the length and breadth of Australia, choosing to work in Cairns in order to fund the final leg of our journey to Sydney.
It was in Cairns that Helen met her future husband, Danilo Bianchin, an Italian immigrant from Treviso. He was a tobacco sharefarmer from the tobacco farming community of Mareeba. His English was pitiful, and her command of Italian was nil. Six months later they married, and Helen was flung into cooking for up to nine tobacco pickers, stringing tobacco, feeding 200 chickens, a few turkeys, ducks... plus killing, cleaning and cooking the same! Her knowledge of Italian improved, and there were hilarious moments in retrospect. Some of what she endured was cooking on a wood-burning stove, having no running hot water, a primitive shower and toilet facilities, washing uniforms for two soccer teams during the soccer season... floods, horrendous hailstone damage to tobacco crops, hardship, and the stillbirth of their first child. Then, to their joy, Helen's daughter, Lucia, was born. Three years later the couple returned to New Zealand, where they settled for sixteen years. During those early years, they added two sons, Angelo and Peter, to the family.
With multiple anecdotes of farm life in an Italian community to friends, the idea of writing a book occurred. A romance, set on a tobacco farm in Australia's far north, Queensland, featuring an Italian hero. Helen says, "the background was authentic, believe me!" However the hero was rich and owned the farm artistic license! It took her a year to complete a passable manuscript, typed on a portable typewriter at the dining room table. That first effort was deemed too short with insufficient detail. Helen rewrote it. This time it was considered too long with too much extraneous detail. She revised, then sent it to London. Four months later she received a telegram from Alan Boon (Mills & Boon) to say they intended to publish and a contract would be sent in the mail. It was the most wonderful news!
Helen wrote ten more books while living in New Zealand, then in 1981, her family resettled in Australia, on Queensland's Gold Coast. She has since published twenty-five more books. Today, with computer technology, the mechanics of writing are much easier. However, the writing process doesn't change. Helen says that she's having a good day if she can achieve 5 good pages, which she is likely to change, edit and rewrite the following day.
She loves creating characters, giving them life and providing a situation where their emotions are tested and love wins out. For her, the greatest praise is for a reader to say they couldn't put the book down... then Helen knows that she has achieved what she set out to do -- "create a moving enjoyable story which holds the reader entertained from beginning to end."
Helen's hobbies are tennis, table-tennis, judo, reading. She loves movies, and leads an active social life.
At age twenty-one Helen joined a girlfriend and embarked on a working holiday in Australia, travelling via cruise ship from Auckland to Melbourne. Alas, no shipboard romance, as she spent all four days in her cabin suffering from sea-sickness! After fifteen months working in Melbourne, Helen and her friend bought a vehicle and took three months to drive the length and breadth of Australia, choosing to work in Cairns in order to fund the final leg of our journey to Sydney.
It was in Cairns that Helen met her future husband, Danilo Bianchin, an Italian immigrant from Treviso. He was a tobacco sharefarmer from the tobacco farming community of Mareeba. His English was pitiful, and her command of Italian was nil. Six months later they married, and Helen was flung into cooking for up to nine tobacco pickers, stringing tobacco, feeding 200 chickens, a few turkeys, ducks... plus killing, cleaning and cooking the same! Her knowledge of Italian improved, and there were hilarious moments in retrospect. Some of what she endured was cooking on a wood-burning stove, having no running hot water, a primitive shower and toilet facilities, washing uniforms for two soccer teams during the soccer season... floods, horrendous hailstone damage to tobacco crops, hardship, and the stillbirth of their first child. Then, to their joy, Helen's daughter, Lucia, was born. Three years later the couple returned to New Zealand, where they settled for sixteen years. During those early years, they added two sons, Angelo and Peter, to the family.
With multiple anecdotes of farm life in an Italian community to friends, the idea of writing a book occurred. A romance, set on a tobacco farm in Australia's far north, Queensland, featuring an Italian hero. Helen says, "the background was authentic, believe me!" However the hero was rich and owned the farm artistic license! It took her a year to complete a passable manuscript, typed on a portable typewriter at the dining room table. That first effort was deemed too short with insufficient detail. Helen rewrote it. This time it was considered too long with too much extraneous detail. She revised, then sent it to London. Four months later she received a telegram from Alan Boon (Mills & Boon) to say they intended to publish and a contract would be sent in the mail. It was the most wonderful news!
Helen wrote ten more books while living in New Zealand, then in 1981, her family resettled in Australia, on Queensland's Gold Coast. She has since published twenty-five more books. Today, with computer technology, the mechanics of writing are much easier. However, the writing process doesn't change. Helen says that she's having a good day if she can achieve 5 good pages, which she is likely to change, edit and rewrite the following day.
She loves creating characters, giving them life and providing a situation where their emotions are tested and love wins out. For her, the greatest praise is for a reader to say they couldn't put the book down... then Helen knows that she has achieved what she set out to do -- "create a moving enjoyable story which holds the reader entertained from beginning to end."
Helen's hobbies are tennis, table-tennis, judo, reading. She loves movies, and leads an active social life.
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December 29, 2024
The heroine is a a young free spirit on a working holiday in Australia with her friend when a car failure on the highway leads to her meeting the grumpy hero, who is in charge of a nearby construction camp. The hero is jaded, cynical, and aggressive, the polar opposite of this sweet, sunny, young woman. He makes no secret how he loathes her presence in the male-dominated camp and he also mocks her traveling, nomadic lifestyle. And yet, he cannot seem to let her go and starts "coincidentally" showing up on the next locations on her itinerary lol.
As he slowly thaws, you start to see a real sweet side to him, especially when he arranges a trip for heroine to see some magnificent nature sights that she was regretting missing out on. I loved that he really listened to her and planned his campaign of winning her over not by showing off his wealth and status but by taking her to places that she expressed she would enjoy. So we got a lovely Australian travelogue out of this and also, because Helen Bianchin is such a shower fiend, lots and lots of fragrant showers, even managing to create a few shower stations in the middle of the Australian outback!
Finally, I liked that there was minimal OW interference and that this hero, far from being the typical, arrogant HP hero who likes to have his cake and eat it too, absolutely shut down the OW several times when she tried to inject her venom into the relationship between the heroine and the hero.
Just a very sweet romance where I really believed in their HE A. Nicely done!
As he slowly thaws, you start to see a real sweet side to him, especially when he arranges a trip for heroine to see some magnificent nature sights that she was regretting missing out on. I loved that he really listened to her and planned his campaign of winning her over not by showing off his wealth and status but by taking her to places that she expressed she would enjoy. So we got a lovely Australian travelogue out of this and also, because Helen Bianchin is such a shower fiend, lots and lots of fragrant showers, even managing to create a few shower stations in the middle of the Australian outback!
Finally, I liked that there was minimal OW interference and that this hero, far from being the typical, arrogant HP hero who likes to have his cake and eat it too, absolutely shut down the OW several times when she tried to inject her venom into the relationship between the heroine and the hero.
Just a very sweet romance where I really believed in their HE A. Nicely done!
June 8, 2020
Why couldn't he leave her alone?
When Jamie first met Logan in the Australian outback, she knew immediately he wasn't the sort of man for her. And handsome, arrogant Logan made it clear that he considered her a mere child.
His taste in women obviously ran to rich, exotic types -- like Sacha Andreas.
But if that was true, why did he seem to appear everywhere Jamie went? And why had his kiss seemed like a promise?
When Jamie first met Logan in the Australian outback, she knew immediately he wasn't the sort of man for her. And handsome, arrogant Logan made it clear that he considered her a mere child.
His taste in women obviously ran to rich, exotic types -- like Sacha Andreas.
But if that was true, why did he seem to appear everywhere Jamie went? And why had his kiss seemed like a promise?
June 24, 2021
This reads like a movie. I really enjoyed it.
July 2, 2015
One of the better older Helen Bianchin books. Of course it has her usual bossy domineering Hero and sassy heroine plus jealous OW. But unlike her newer novels this one starts off in the outback and h is under the impression that the H is a construction worker. What I liked about this story unlike the newer ones, although the circumstances of their first meeting was unusual when they separate and meet again the H goes to a lot of effort to actually date the h, so we can see the relationship develop. Of course he is a bit secretive about who he really is but it worked for the story and gave a bit of basis for the conflict, which of course is resolved in the end and they get their HEA.
October 8, 2017
An okay read. I do like my heroes stalker-ish and Logan did not disappoint. He was wonderfully persistent.
April 3, 2024
I loved the first 45 pages or so and the heroine and hero to start with. The setting was unusual and compelling and when they left it, the story lost grip. She was feisty and funny to begin with, but just became dull with being collected from her bar/waitressing jobs at random times. He was HOT when he was working out in the wilds, driving a road building machine and enjoying beer and banter. I was SO disappointed that he ended up being just a boring entrepreneur - whey is it they think we only enjoy stories about men with money? Or if he'd been a farmer that would have been ok, but being a businessman is dull, dull, DULL.
5 stars for the start and 1 for the last 140 pages.
5 stars for the start and 1 for the last 140 pages.
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October 17, 2023
An ok read
i Liked the H, he was smitten plus he didn't even encourage the OW.
I didn't like the h, i don't know she seemed unnecessarily wary of h more like yes no yes, i didn't get her personality.
i Liked the H, he was smitten plus he didn't even encourage the OW.
I didn't like the h, i don't know she seemed unnecessarily wary of h more like yes no yes, i didn't get her personality.
March 12, 2019
Slightly different from this author’s usual MO. A nice heroine who wasn’t afraid to stand up for herself. Lots of showering of course and less about mundane matters.
November 26, 2020
I love it when the hero falls hard and fast for the heroine, then he does all sorts of things to win her love, but tries to be surreptitious about it.
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