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The House of the Eagles
Lois had tried to make herself believe that her romance with Val Daventry was only a holiday affair-but she knew in her heart that it was much more than that; that she wold never love any other man.
But unfortunately Val didn't seem to feel the same way...
But unfortunately Val didn't seem to feel the same way...
188 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1975
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Elizabeth Ashton
102 books18 followersElizabeth Ashton was a British writer of romance novels to Mills & Boon from 1969 to 1990.
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July 4, 2015
Thoroughly disliked this. Val jumps to conclusions about a situation that looks compromising and refuses to let Lois explain. He supposedly loves her and of course when you love someone it is natural to think the worst of them and refuse to listen to their explanations and then to go on and berate them and call them nasty names. In the end he believes her only after a third party tells him what actually happened. He does not grovel or even say I'm sorry. He only says "can you ever forgive me". and then they live happily ever after.
September 27, 2012
I am going through rating the box of favorite genre romance novels I saved from years ago. I bought this one used in junior high and I'm sure it was one of the first I read. It was originally published in 1974.
I loved the exotic locales of Italy and England. The handsome hero does not like being played the fool by his arrogant girlfriend and sees the innocent charms of our young heroine instead. Ah, but the intrigue! Is he an English lord travelling in disguise, or the down-to-earth Canadian he claims to be? This is a sweet romance with a plot more original than many.
I loved the exotic locales of Italy and England. The handsome hero does not like being played the fool by his arrogant girlfriend and sees the innocent charms of our young heroine instead. Ah, but the intrigue! Is he an English lord travelling in disguise, or the down-to-earth Canadian he claims to be? This is a sweet romance with a plot more original than many.
February 26, 2026
This was a fun, pretty lighthearted read- a comedy of mistaken identities.
Heroine meets Hero while she is temporarily living and working on the coast of Italy. She works at a hotel, and meets the H one evening as he is escorting a floozy who's staying at the hotel.
H and the floozy get into a spat and he states that he's taking out the first woman he comes across. Turns around and sees h.
They go for a long drive on the Italian Riviera; he makes a move on her; she says no, and he takes her back. Surprisingly he keeps asking her out, but never makes a move on her again, for a few weeks. Then he finds out he has to leave so he tells her, and she confesses her feelings for him. His flabber is gasted because he was attracted to her but thought she only wanted to be friends, so they embrace and make out, and then he says he's coming back and to wait for her because he definitely will be back in a few weeks or so. He doesn't know where he will be staying till he gets there, so he says he'll write/call with his address.
So he leaves, but heroine receives no letters or calls, and a week or so later is framed by the jealous OW for theft. She loses her job but leaves her addy with one of the workers there she's befriended and heads back to England. Unfortunately the worker who has her addy also ends up leaving the hotel and does not pass on her home address to anyone else.
A couple of things though: The heroine has thought from the get-go that the H looks vaguely familiar, and realizes he resembles the portrait of this old lord in England whose estate she's visited before. H also at one point left his cufflinks in her purse and she notices that they're antique-looking with an interesting crest on them, an eagle. Also the OW angrily hints that the H is very wealthy/famous and is slumming it whilst in Italy.
Once the h gets back to England, and several weeks have gone by, she thinks that she's been duped and that the H never was going to come back because of course he would have found out everything and found her. She's heartbroken so she decides to re-visit that English estate so she can go look at the portrait of the lord who looks so much like the H.
Once at the estate/property/house, which is eagle themed as the family connected with it is known as the House of the Eagles, she runs into a secretary who starts talking about the young Lord Eagleface and how he's coming back home because he has to be married in a MOC and how much he looks like that one portrait of that other lord, and how he's been living it up on the Italian Riviera incognito and romancing random women as is his wont.
So heroine puts several things together and shenanigans for real begin to begin.
Suffice it to say, it ends in a comedy of errors, miscommunications, and mistaken identities, but ends in an HEA.
Heroine meets Hero while she is temporarily living and working on the coast of Italy. She works at a hotel, and meets the H one evening as he is escorting a floozy who's staying at the hotel.
H and the floozy get into a spat and he states that he's taking out the first woman he comes across. Turns around and sees h.
They go for a long drive on the Italian Riviera; he makes a move on her; she says no, and he takes her back. Surprisingly he keeps asking her out, but never makes a move on her again, for a few weeks. Then he finds out he has to leave so he tells her, and she confesses her feelings for him. His flabber is gasted because he was attracted to her but thought she only wanted to be friends, so they embrace and make out, and then he says he's coming back and to wait for her because he definitely will be back in a few weeks or so. He doesn't know where he will be staying till he gets there, so he says he'll write/call with his address.
So he leaves, but heroine receives no letters or calls, and a week or so later is framed by the jealous OW for theft. She loses her job but leaves her addy with one of the workers there she's befriended and heads back to England. Unfortunately the worker who has her addy also ends up leaving the hotel and does not pass on her home address to anyone else.
A couple of things though: The heroine has thought from the get-go that the H looks vaguely familiar, and realizes he resembles the portrait of this old lord in England whose estate she's visited before. H also at one point left his cufflinks in her purse and she notices that they're antique-looking with an interesting crest on them, an eagle. Also the OW angrily hints that the H is very wealthy/famous and is slumming it whilst in Italy.
Once the h gets back to England, and several weeks have gone by, she thinks that she's been duped and that the H never was going to come back because of course he would have found out everything and found her. She's heartbroken so she decides to re-visit that English estate so she can go look at the portrait of the lord who looks so much like the H.
Once at the estate/property/house, which is eagle themed as the family connected with it is known as the House of the Eagles, she runs into a secretary who starts talking about the young Lord Eagleface and how he's coming back home because he has to be married in a MOC and how much he looks like that one portrait of that other lord, and how he's been living it up on the Italian Riviera incognito and romancing random women as is his wont.
So heroine puts several things together and shenanigans for real begin to begin.
Suffice it to say, it ends in a comedy of errors, miscommunications, and mistaken identities, but ends in an HEA.
September 17, 2019
This was pretty awful.
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