No Legacy For Lindsay (U)

MacGregor of Windrush Hill #1

by Essie Summers

Lindsay Macrae crossed the world with her young stepbrother and stepsister to give them a home. They arrived in New Zealand too late to know their father, but their future, Lindsay learned, was entrusted to his farm manager, Euan Hazeldean, who soon made it very clear that Lindsay was not welcome.

Genres: Romance, Harlequin, Clean Romance, Harlequin Romance

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

Essie Summers was a New Zealand author who wrote so vividly of the people and landscape of her native country that she was offered The Order Of the British Empire for her contributions to New Zealand tourism.

Ethel Snelson Summers was born on on July 24, 1912 to a newly-emigrated couple, Ethel Snelson and Edwin Summers, situated in Bordesley Street in Christchurch, Essie was always proud of both her British heritage and her New Zealand citizenship. Both her parents were exceptional storytellers, and this, combined with her early introduction to the Anne of Green Gables stories, engendered in her a life-long fascination with the craft of writing and the colorful legacy of pioneers everywhere.

Leaving school at 14 when her father's butcher shop experienced financial difficulties, she worked for a number of years in draper's shops and later turned her experiences to good use in writing the romantic novels for which she became famous.

She met her husband-to-be William Flett when she was only 13 years old, but it was 13 years before she consented to marry him. A minister's wife and the mother of two, William and Elizabeth, she still found many opportunities to pen short stories, poetry and newspaper columns before embarking on her first novel, which sold to the firm of Mills & Boon in 1956.

Summers died in Taradale, Hawkes Bay on the August 27, 1998.

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Reviews

[Kavitha Sivakumar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading Essie Summers after a long time. Love her description of Newzealand's natural treasures. This book is no different than her other books....very strong heroine character, hard-working, good natured, straight forward lady :)

I could get the secret that unfold at the end of the novel, from the get go. So not so suspenseful.

[Fiona Marsden · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lindsay is the guardian of her stepbrother and stepsister and after her mothers death, she contacts their father who urges them to come and see him in New Zealand. He is ill and dies before they arrive. His farm manager, Euan, is left in charge and while he welcomes the children, he is not so welcoming to Lindsay who he believes is out to line her pockets courtesy of an anonymous letter from Lindsay's selfish ex-boyfriends mother.

Of course time has a way of sorting things out and in the matter of the children's inheritance, things are not what they seem. Lindsay is also highly suspicious of Euan because of this. Various misunderstandings occur. Of course all ends well with a sweet and satisfying ending.

[Vana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not enough come-uppance for Euan, IMO; Lindsay readily accepts he's been lying to her all along, and she has no inheritance-- only what he deeded her. But she's spunky, I'll give her that, and in the end she did what she said she'd never do: "let the tears fa'll down, for Jock of Hazeldean."

[Nadosha · Rating 4 out of 5]

((when one door closes ,Lindesy, anther opens. Remember that all through life,dear.))

That it was just as well there was always something needing to be done 'in life's most poignant and dispersing moments, there is always the blessings of having to prepare a meal, scrb a floor .

[Jane Irish Nelson · Rating 4 out of 5]

After her mother's death, Lindsay is shocked to discover that he fiance refuses to accept her young half-brother and sister into their household, when they marry. Instead, his mother suggest that they should be sent to an orphanage. So Lindsay breaks the engagement, but wonders just how she can support the children, when, out of the blue, she receives a letter from their father, in New Zealand. He wishes to meet his children before he dies, and promises that along with their shares of the estate, he will also leave Lindsay a legacy. But by the time they arrive he has died, and nothing is quite like Lindsay expects. Can she somehow make a life for herself there despite the suspicions of Euan Hazeldean, the estate manager? As usual, the characters are well-rounded, and the situations believable. Recommended.