Loving Rescue

by Dixie Browning

Lacy's first trip to Guatemala seemed doomed from the start. First her friend was called home unexpectedly, then Lacy's luggage and handbag were stolen . . . until finally she was rescued by the enigmatic Jordan Stone.

But when she found herself virtually a prisoner on his boat, she began to doubt Jordan's motives.

What was his game? Was she just a pawn in his play for the woman he was sailing to meet? After losing all her possessions, was she also in danger of losing her heart?

186 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1982

About the author

Dixie Burrus was born on September 09, 1930 in North Carolina's Outer Banks, U.S.A, where her family had lived for generations, to sea captain Dozier Burrus and Achsah Williams. Her father was the professional baseball player Maurice Lennon "Dick" Burrus, she has two sisters, Mary and Sarah Burrus.

Dixie is an artist and romance writer. She began writting contemporany romance novels as Zoe Dozier, now she writes her contemporary romances with her married name, Dixie Browning, and historical romances with her sister, Mary Burrus Williams as Bronwyn Williams, one combination of their married names. She has been awarded a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and been a five-time RITA finalist. She has also won three Maggies, and numerous awards from the National Federation of Press Women and the NC Press Club.

Reviews

[StMargarets · Rating 2 out of 5]

Predictable vintage story of an airhead heroine who loses her purse/luggage/mind on her first trip abroad. Hero from a tycoon family rescues her and she sails with him on his small, but expensive sailboat until they reach Mexico. There they hook up with hero’s rich friends and an OW emerges to liven the pages with threats against the heroine.

Heroine is annoyingly strident in her pushback against the hero’s passes. She is also master at uttering half-truths and jumping to conclusions when she does bother to listen. The most tedious parts of the story are all the meals the heroine makes, the meals the hero makes, the meals the heroine refuses to eat. The next tedious parts are all the clothes the heroine rejects from the hero, the clothes she takes from the hero’s closet, the clothes she accepts from the rich people. I was drowning in minutia.

This isn’t a terrible story – just dull with an annoying heroine. Hero is cardboard cut-out rich guy who never explains anything.

[Alana · Rating 1 out of 5]

En natuurlijk, zoals zovaak in die romans, aanranding, gaslighting en vreselijke momenten die dan mooi en liefdevol en romantisch moeten voorstellen? Vlot geschreven maar walgelijk verhaal