Rita Gallagher, a founding member of the Romance Writers of America, was a noted writing instructor of romance novels. She also wrote three women's historical fiction novels from 1982 to 1986.
I love the setting and overly fluffy descriptions of the natural environment. This book would be much shorter (&better) if Melanie read Jane Eyre and had a vibrating eggplant. Why did I expect a 80s romance novel to be anything other than patriarchal garbage though, that’s on me