Valley of Lagoons

by Kerry Allyne

She couldn't let her mother be so foolish
Gayna was shocked when her mother announced suddenly that she was remarrying. Hadn't her father's desertion proved that men were not to be trusted?

But her arguments fell on deaf ears, and instead she incited the anger of Ford Montgomery, who saw her objections as an insult to his father--and himself.

"It's your feelings you're concerned about, not your mother's," he scoffed nastily.

Gayna couldn't think why his opinion mattered....

Genres: Harlequin, Harlequin Romance, Romance

187 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Kerry 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.

Reviews

[Myrna · Rating 1 out of 5]

‘Ì never realised it before, but I think I must be as impetuous as Mum in some things, after all, because I certainly never meant to fall in love-ever-let alone in just three days.’ Her eyes narrowed with mock-indignation. ‘And especially not with someone who was so damned rude when I met him that my hand just itched to slap him!’
‘I know the feeling,’ he retaliated with an impenitent grin. ‘There were times when I was hard put to it not to raise a hand to you too, sweetheart. Only mine was wanting to punish a completely different section of your anatomy.’

The h is nauseating.
At first I could understand her worries. Her mom wants to marry a stranger after 2 weeks of acquaintance. Naturally she’s worried. But soon I got so tired of her wild accusations and comparisons. Everyone is just like her father (the father she doesn’t even remember). She’s created the image of a villain in her mind and now she can’t stop molding her every acquaintance into this image. She suspects her new step-father is a gigolo while flying his private plane and living on his vast ranch. But when the OW accuses her mother of gold-digging she flies off the handle.

Her seething temper and rudeness make her the most unlikable Allyne’s heroine.
She shrieks, bickers and smolders. Quite a dream.

And marrying after 3 days together and 2 weeks apart?

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you enjoy constant fighting and bickering as love, this is the book for you. For me, it was emotionally exhausting to constantly be reading about characters so mad all the time. Ugh! Good ending though.

[Prac Agrl · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF at 30%
i could not stand the shrilly h, omg she has a huge chip on her shoulder which makes her think being rude and having misguided views about people and is the way.
Sorry

[Andi]

DNF. As other reviewers have noted, the h is unbearable. The H is not much better, your stock 80s depiction of the arrogant male who must teach the h a lesson through punishing kisses. Couldn’t be bothered to finish.

[RomLibrary · Rating 3 out of 5]

She couldn't let her mother be so foolish
Gayna was shocked when her mother announced suddenly that she was remarrying. Hadn't her father's desertion proved that men were not to be trusted?
But her arguments fell on deaf ears, and instead she incited the anger of Ford Montgomery, who saw her objections as an insult to his father--and himself.
"It's your feelings you're concerned about, not your mother's," he scoffed nastily.
Gayna couldn't think why his opinion mattered....

[Kerry Allyne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gayna's mother, in the sparse time of two weeks, decided she wished to marry for the second time to a man she had just met in Northern Australia; Gayna was rather concerned and decided her mother needed protection but who was to protect Gayna from Ford Montgomery her future father-in-law's son?

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