When Craig Carolan, grudgingly, gave Adair the job of governess to his young ward in Tunisia, he warned her "If you've a head full of starry-eyed notions about the 'romance' of the desert, you need disillusioning on that..." But Adair was not the sort of girl who easily accepted defeat!
Eileen Norah Murphy Owbridge was born on 8 September 1903 in Yeovil, Somerset, England, she lived in Preston, Sussex, England, and passed away on 4 February 1994 in Worthing, West Sussex.
Under the pseudonym Jane Arbor she wrote over 55 romance novel for Mills & Boon from 1948 to 1985. She started writing doctor-nurse romances, and many have been reedited with diferent titles, that included the words "nurse", "doctor" or "surgeon". Later, she focused her writing in foreign settings like the continental Europe, the Caribbean, Morocco...
That was a struggle. There were only a few scenes with them together, and the entire time he was either insulting her, ordering her about, or accusing her of being too friendly to the point of being a slut with all his men. All she was being was nice. Then all of a sudden, they love each other. Not one nice thing was said to her, yet she falls in love with him?? I don't think so. There was even a part where it was written weird, that almost made it sound like he was telling his 10 year old ward that she had seductive legs. I had to reread it a few times to understand that he was talking to Adair, yet looking at 10 year old Tessa. Just ewww. I know it was written in 1970, but how could anyone find this to be a good romance?