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Calypso's Island
Ilha De MaltaAtraçõ passeios a cavalo, águas cristalinas, cavernas seculares e o experiente conde Romano de Sciorto.Romano e Carolina eram bem diferentes um do outro. Ele queria apenas viver a vida, enquanto ela sempre pensava antes na própria segurança. Na romântica ilha de Malta, estimulada por Romano, Carolina deixou a prudência de lado. Esqueceu as inibições e, pela primeira vez, resolveu viver uma grande paixão. Mas não levou em consideração que o conde Romano de Sciorto era um homem muito experiente e que talvez para ele Carolina significasse apenas diversão...
- GenresHarlequin Presents
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
About the author
Rosalie Ash
54 books15 followersRosalie Ash is a professional writer, a member of the Society of Authors and the Romantic Novelists Association, and is the author of 21 successful contemporary romance novels, published by Harlequin Mills & Boon between 1989 and 1999. Her books are still selling around the world, translated into numerous different languages.
Rosalie lives with her husband in a three storey Regency town-house in Warwickshire, UK, the leafy heart of England. They have six children between them and, so far, five grandchildren.
She has self-published her first ever Mills & Boon romance, MELTING ICE, as a Kindle e-book. Re-written and updated, it is now a longer story and part of 'The Roundwell Farm' trilogy, available on Amazon at http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00APVPJW8
Rosalie lives with her husband in a three storey Regency town-house in Warwickshire, UK, the leafy heart of England. They have six children between them and, so far, five grandchildren.
She has self-published her first ever Mills & Boon romance, MELTING ICE, as a Kindle e-book. Re-written and updated, it is now a longer story and part of 'The Roundwell Farm' trilogy, available on Amazon at http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00APVPJW8
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January 18, 2026
I can’t believe this pair of childish, immature nincompoops are presented as educated professionals and the heads of their respective, successful companies. It would have made more sense if they were both in a middle school playground!
The heroine is a 24 year old CEO of her own PR company based in London. Her widowed mother, who is retired on the island of Malta, recommends her to the local shipping magnate to organize a publicity blitz for his company. This was just an excuse for the author to give us a Maltese travelogue and history lesson, complete with legends, myths and pagan festivals, and boy, did she succeed. There are pages and pages of it for those readers who enjoy Harlequin travelogues.
The h and H first meet by accident when H’s speedboat almost collides with the sailboat that h is traveling on, causing her to fall in the water and lose her bikini top. The hero fishes her out and the bickerfest begins, never to end til the last page of this tedious book. The author expects us to believe that a PR exec can insult a client the way the heroine did and get away with it. And that the hero’s sexual harassment of the heroine was his way of romancing her. To make things worse, the hero was clearly having an affair with his secretary while also trying to get into the heroine’s pants: SO TACKY!
His half-hearted protestations that there was nothing going on between him and his secretary were laughable in view of his actions which tell a different story: dating her, taking her to family gatherings, letting her treat the heroine like shit and lording it over her at the office when she is supposed to facilitate heroine’s efforts to get her PR campaign going, letting her drape herself all over him every chance she gets, etc. For god’sake, he was kissing his secretary passionately when the heroine walked in unannounced in his office. His explanation: His secretary lost her balance and he was holding her up ROFL. Then, 5 minutes later, he is kissing the heroine with the saliva of the other girl still on his tongue YUCK!!! At least keep mouthwash handy if you are going to jump every female who walks into your office 🥵
I didn’t feel the love in this at all. As oozy as the can’t-keep-it-in-pants hero was, the heroine was a thoroughly unlikable prickly cactus and she had ridiculous traitorous body melting fits every time the hero was close by, not my idea of a cool, poised businesswoman. This was a hot mess.
The heroine is a 24 year old CEO of her own PR company based in London. Her widowed mother, who is retired on the island of Malta, recommends her to the local shipping magnate to organize a publicity blitz for his company. This was just an excuse for the author to give us a Maltese travelogue and history lesson, complete with legends, myths and pagan festivals, and boy, did she succeed. There are pages and pages of it for those readers who enjoy Harlequin travelogues.
The h and H first meet by accident when H’s speedboat almost collides with the sailboat that h is traveling on, causing her to fall in the water and lose her bikini top. The hero fishes her out and the bickerfest begins, never to end til the last page of this tedious book. The author expects us to believe that a PR exec can insult a client the way the heroine did and get away with it. And that the hero’s sexual harassment of the heroine was his way of romancing her. To make things worse, the hero was clearly having an affair with his secretary while also trying to get into the heroine’s pants: SO TACKY!
His half-hearted protestations that there was nothing going on between him and his secretary were laughable in view of his actions which tell a different story: dating her, taking her to family gatherings, letting her treat the heroine like shit and lording it over her at the office when she is supposed to facilitate heroine’s efforts to get her PR campaign going, letting her drape herself all over him every chance she gets, etc. For god’sake, he was kissing his secretary passionately when the heroine walked in unannounced in his office. His explanation: His secretary lost her balance and he was holding her up ROFL. Then, 5 minutes later, he is kissing the heroine with the saliva of the other girl still on his tongue YUCK!!! At least keep mouthwash handy if you are going to jump every female who walks into your office 🥵
I didn’t feel the love in this at all. As oozy as the can’t-keep-it-in-pants hero was, the heroine was a thoroughly unlikable prickly cactus and she had ridiculous traitorous body melting fits every time the hero was close by, not my idea of a cool, poised businesswoman. This was a hot mess.
March 21, 2019
Caroline Hastings is in Malta to work, but her sensible approach to life is knocked sideways when she is fished half naked out of the sea by Count Roman di Sciorto who turns out to be her business client. His life philosophy is the exact opposite of hers and they soon clash. But the island works its magic on Caroline, encouraging her to cast aside her inhibitions.
May 11, 2024
Malta travelogue with added instalust. The h, Caroline, 24 and supposed independent PR professional, is overwhelmingly snippy and infantile. He (Roman, Maltese Count and something in high end Chandlery I think?) not a lot better. A lot of non sequiturs in this bickerfest. Not dire, I'd try another by this author, but pretty so so.
October 9, 2012
Book synopsis:
"Live life to the full..."
Roman's philosophy was the exact opposite to Caroline's. He believed in enjoying everything that life had to offer, while she had always put safety first. But on the romantic island of Malta, encouraged by Roman, Caroline found herself throwing caution to the winds. She cast aside her inhibitions and, for the first time ever, experienced the beauty and power of passionate love. Roman was very much a man of the world, though, so how could Caroline be sure that he didn't see her as just a holiday diversion?
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Positive things: Malta’s exotism, we visit beautiful places there through H and h, learn about the legend of Calypso, about Malta’s particular history and so on.
It is also amusing the way in which Roman and Caroline meet for the first time, although it begins with an infortunate accident at sea.
But for me it is not a story above the standard. Entertaining yes, but not special.
"Live life to the full..."
Roman's philosophy was the exact opposite to Caroline's. He believed in enjoying everything that life had to offer, while she had always put safety first. But on the romantic island of Malta, encouraged by Roman, Caroline found herself throwing caution to the winds. She cast aside her inhibitions and, for the first time ever, experienced the beauty and power of passionate love. Roman was very much a man of the world, though, so how could Caroline be sure that he didn't see her as just a holiday diversion?
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Positive things: Malta’s exotism, we visit beautiful places there through H and h, learn about the legend of Calypso, about Malta’s particular history and so on.
It is also amusing the way in which Roman and Caroline meet for the first time, although it begins with an infortunate accident at sea.
But for me it is not a story above the standard. Entertaining yes, but not special.
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