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Timber Boss
"You can't force me to stay on here!"
By Ty Frazer could and did. What Greer regarded as a simple business transaction was fast turning into a war of wills.
Ty stubbornly refused to buy her half of the Nova Scotia lumber business she had inherited from her father. But why? He should have jumped at the chance to be rid of her. After all, they hated each other, didn't they?
Or did they?
By Ty Frazer could and did. What Greer regarded as a simple business transaction was fast turning into a war of wills.
Ty stubbornly refused to buy her half of the Nova Scotia lumber business she had inherited from her father. But why? He should have jumped at the chance to be rid of her. After all, they hated each other, didn't they?
Or did they?
- GenresHarlequin Romance
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
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Kay Thorpe
181 books65 followersKay Thorpe was born on 1935 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK. An avid reader from the time when words on paper began to make sense, she developed a lively imagination of her own, making up stories for the entertainment of her young friends. After leaving school, she tried a variety of jobs, including dental nursing, and a spell in the Women's Royal Airforce from which she emerged knowing a whole lot more about life - if only as an observer.
In 1960, she married with Tony, but didn't begin thinking about trying her hand at writing for a living until she gave up work some four years later to have a baby, John. Having read Mills & Boon novels herself, and done some market research in the local library asking readers what it was they particularly liked about the books, she decided to aim for a particular market, and was fortunate to have her very first, completed manuscript accepted - The Last of the Mallorys, published in 1968. Since then she has written over seventy five books, which doesn't begin to compare with the output of some Mills & Boon authors, but still leaves her wondering where all those words came from.
Sometimes, she finds she has become two different people: the writer at her happiest when involved in the world of books and authors; and the housewife, turning her hands to the everyday needs of husband and son. Once in a while, she finds it difficult to step from one role to the other. She likes cooking, for instance, but she finds that it can be an irritating interruption when she's preoccupied with work on a novel, so the quality of her efforts in the kitchen tend to be a little erratic. She says, "As my husband once remarked, my writing gives life a fascinating element of uncertainly: one day a perfect coq au vin, the next day a couple of burned chops!"
Luckily Kay has daily professional help with her housework, and that leaves her time to indulge in her hobbies. Like many other Mills & Boon authors, she admits to being a voracious consumer of books, a quality she shares with her readers. She likes music and horseback riding, which she does in the countryside near her home. But her favorite hobby is travel - especially to places that will make good settings for her books.
Kay now lives on the outskirts of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, along with husband, Tony, and a huge tabby cat called Mad Max, her one son having flown the coop. Some day she'll think about retiring, but not yet awhile.
In 1960, she married with Tony, but didn't begin thinking about trying her hand at writing for a living until she gave up work some four years later to have a baby, John. Having read Mills & Boon novels herself, and done some market research in the local library asking readers what it was they particularly liked about the books, she decided to aim for a particular market, and was fortunate to have her very first, completed manuscript accepted - The Last of the Mallorys, published in 1968. Since then she has written over seventy five books, which doesn't begin to compare with the output of some Mills & Boon authors, but still leaves her wondering where all those words came from.
Sometimes, she finds she has become two different people: the writer at her happiest when involved in the world of books and authors; and the housewife, turning her hands to the everyday needs of husband and son. Once in a while, she finds it difficult to step from one role to the other. She likes cooking, for instance, but she finds that it can be an irritating interruption when she's preoccupied with work on a novel, so the quality of her efforts in the kitchen tend to be a little erratic. She says, "As my husband once remarked, my writing gives life a fascinating element of uncertainly: one day a perfect coq au vin, the next day a couple of burned chops!"
Luckily Kay has daily professional help with her housework, and that leaves her time to indulge in her hobbies. Like many other Mills & Boon authors, she admits to being a voracious consumer of books, a quality she shares with her readers. She likes music and horseback riding, which she does in the countryside near her home. But her favorite hobby is travel - especially to places that will make good settings for her books.
Kay now lives on the outskirts of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, along with husband, Tony, and a huge tabby cat called Mad Max, her one son having flown the coop. Some day she'll think about retiring, but not yet awhile.
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September 30, 2020
I’m a lumberjack
And I’m okay
I sleep all night
And I work all day…
OK, having gotten that out of the way, this 1978 HR from Kay Thorpe features the most suggestible heroine ever! Her mother suggests that her dad was chiefly responsible for their breakup when she was a baby, so she basically cuts daddy out of her life. Her boss/boyfriend suggests they get engaged two days after she inherits daddy’s half of a timber company, so she agrees even though she’s not in love with him and he makes it clear he won’t be a faithful fiancé, let alone husband. He also suggests she sell out her shares to daddy’s timber-boss partner and stake him in some nebulous oil drilling scheme—to the tune of 50 thousand pounds (about $350K in today’s money based on my quick Googling). She agrees!
The hero does not suggest anything. He demands, bullies, punishes, enforces. He kicks doors down, kidnaps the heroine, throws her over his shoulder, subjects her to punishing kisses and threats of rape--a real KT caveman type in jeans and boots and flannels. The heroine of course is smitten despite some token initial resistance because demands and force are even better than suggestions! In the course of a week, we go from mutual dislike to a (suspect) HEA. I kid you not.
The heroine is actually not unlikeable, oddly enough—she’s not particularly bratty, she's pretty sensible (except for the extreme susceptibility to suggestions), she mostly keeps her cool. But she lets events and other people blow her this way and that way. The hero’s he-man magnetism has her discarding her London-girl ways and fighting fires, picking apples, and square dancing in mere days. She’s in full-blown love almost as soon as he suggests there’s something brewing between them. She’s willing to sacrifice her entire way of life within a week to stay and be his doormat forever more. The hero makes it clear his wife will be barefoot and pregnant and subject to his will (KT’s primitive he-men don’t take any crap from mere females!).
The punishing kisses/groping and sheer chauvinism was something else in this one even for a vintage Harley. There’s a potential OW, but she’s super nice and clears the way for our heroine when she realizes the heroine is in "love" with the hero. And of course it wouldn’t be a Kay Thorpe book without some overt discussion of cheating (the heroine and her soon-to-be-jettisoned fiancé discuss it at length in one scene).
I honestly need more time to sort though my reactions to this one. I didn’t hate it, it made me laugh sometimes, and it actually was enjoyable for its descriptions of a Nova Scotia logging community, with pretty rich secondary characters. I might return for full spoilage and further musings on this one given more time—it’s not at all a must read, but it does have some interesting things.
And I’m okay
I sleep all night
And I work all day…
OK, having gotten that out of the way, this 1978 HR from Kay Thorpe features the most suggestible heroine ever! Her mother suggests that her dad was chiefly responsible for their breakup when she was a baby, so she basically cuts daddy out of her life. Her boss/boyfriend suggests they get engaged two days after she inherits daddy’s half of a timber company, so she agrees even though she’s not in love with him and he makes it clear he won’t be a faithful fiancé, let alone husband. He also suggests she sell out her shares to daddy’s timber-boss partner and stake him in some nebulous oil drilling scheme—to the tune of 50 thousand pounds (about $350K in today’s money based on my quick Googling). She agrees!
The hero does not suggest anything. He demands, bullies, punishes, enforces. He kicks doors down, kidnaps the heroine, throws her over his shoulder, subjects her to punishing kisses and threats of rape--a real KT caveman type in jeans and boots and flannels. The heroine of course is smitten despite some token initial resistance because demands and force are even better than suggestions! In the course of a week, we go from mutual dislike to a (suspect) HEA. I kid you not.
The heroine is actually not unlikeable, oddly enough—she’s not particularly bratty, she's pretty sensible (except for the extreme susceptibility to suggestions), she mostly keeps her cool. But she lets events and other people blow her this way and that way. The hero’s he-man magnetism has her discarding her London-girl ways and fighting fires, picking apples, and square dancing in mere days. She’s in full-blown love almost as soon as he suggests there’s something brewing between them. She’s willing to sacrifice her entire way of life within a week to stay and be his doormat forever more. The hero makes it clear his wife will be barefoot and pregnant and subject to his will (KT’s primitive he-men don’t take any crap from mere females!).
The punishing kisses/groping and sheer chauvinism was something else in this one even for a vintage Harley. There’s a potential OW, but she’s super nice and clears the way for our heroine when she realizes the heroine is in "love" with the hero. And of course it wouldn’t be a Kay Thorpe book without some overt discussion of cheating (the heroine and her soon-to-be-jettisoned fiancé discuss it at length in one scene).
I honestly need more time to sort though my reactions to this one. I didn’t hate it, it made me laugh sometimes, and it actually was enjoyable for its descriptions of a Nova Scotia logging community, with pretty rich secondary characters. I might return for full spoilage and further musings on this one given more time—it’s not at all a must read, but it does have some interesting things.
January 14, 2023
"You can't force me to stay on here!"
By Ty Frazer could and did. What Greer regarded as a simple business transaction was fast turning into a war of wills.
Ty stubbornly refused to buy her half of the Nova Scotia lumber business she had inherited from her father. But why? He should have jumped at the chance to be rid of her. After all, they hated each other, didn't they?
Or did they?
By Ty Frazer could and did. What Greer regarded as a simple business transaction was fast turning into a war of wills.
Ty stubbornly refused to buy her half of the Nova Scotia lumber business she had inherited from her father. But why? He should have jumped at the chance to be rid of her. After all, they hated each other, didn't they?
Or did they?
May 28, 2017
Simpele roman, waarbij je na de eerste pagina al weet hoe het afloopt. In een avondje uitgelezen. Fijn boek waar je niet bij na hoeft te denken. (NL-versie: In de eerste zonnestralen.)
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