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NEED A GETAWAY? ... THE AD ASKED
"I certainly do!" Daisy muttered to herself. And Tamarind Cottage in Jamaica's remote Blue Mountains offered escape from the barbed attacks from Britain's gutter press.
There she wouldn't have to dodge knowing glances from skeptics --- skeptics like her fiance --- who actually believed she'd had an affair with her famous artist friend who'd rendered her so provocatively in his Studies of Margeurite.
But, as it turned out, scandal would overtake her, especially when she found herself having to share Tamarind Cottage with its very real owner.
"I certainly do!" Daisy muttered to herself. And Tamarind Cottage in Jamaica's remote Blue Mountains offered escape from the barbed attacks from Britain's gutter press.
There she wouldn't have to dodge knowing glances from skeptics --- skeptics like her fiance --- who actually believed she'd had an affair with her famous artist friend who'd rendered her so provocatively in his Studies of Margeurite.
But, as it turned out, scandal would overtake her, especially when she found herself having to share Tamarind Cottage with its very real owner.
186 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1990
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August 17, 2017
Let's get the title out of the way first. Yes, the heroine's name is Daisy. And yes, the hero unearths a bicycle built for two at the end for his marriage proposal.
This is a fun, angst free story set in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. The heroine is an orphaned artist from Cornwall. The older artist who mentored her and his wife have betrayed her at the beginning of the story. Seems the older artists did a series of scantily clad studies of her when she was 17. The artist's wife gets the bright idea that they (and his current work) would sell better if she told the press a pack of lies how her husband had an affair with the young heroine while she was living in their house.
Her fiance jilts her and everyone in the village is talking about her. The artist's wife keeps adding details to keep the story in the news. The heroine is hiding from the paparazzi when she sees an ad in the paper to sublet a villa in Jamaica for the month of November. She takes the money she had been saving for her wedding and books it.
The H/h meet cute when the heroine brains him with a statue when the hero enters his villa at two in the morning. She breaks his glasses - which is too bad since she is described as stunningly beautiful and the hero is very bad-tempered with her until she drives him into town the next day for a new pair. Turns out the hero's former tenant placed the ad as a money making scheme and the hero knew nothing about it.
The hero wants the heroine gone yesterday, but the heroine adamantly refuses to go to a hotel because she saw her picture on a tabloid magazine at shop in Jamaica. The story has followed her across the Atlantic. While she doesn't think the natives would read the magazine, she thinks the tourist at the hotel would and would recognize her. A hurricane had roared through six weeks before and housing is in short supply. The H/h will just have to stay together.
They manage to get along with the heroine out sketching all day and the hero off overseeing his coffee plantation and helping rebuild. At night he works on his architecture projects (He owns a firm in London and has a house there as well. ) and the heroine paints.
Not a lot happens, really. The hero makes a pass at her and then pulls back explaining he will never marry and she doesn't seem that sort of girl. His two sisters make their disapproval of the h quite clear. They have an OW in mind, but the hero just ignores them.
The heroine dreads the hero finding out about her "affair" with her mentor because she doesn't think he'll believe her since the people who have known her her whole life didn't believe her. She even takes pages out of his magazine from England so he won't know.
After charming the locals with her paintings (the hero is an art connoisseur and encourages her to branch out into more impressionistic landscapes), it's time for the heroine to leave. Unbeknownst to the heroine, the hero has obtained the two seat bicycle, but before he can propose his sister shows him the magazine with the heroine's "affair." The heroine drives away because she can't bear to have the hero be disappointed in her. He catches up to her and tells her he believes her. His big surprise is ruined, but that's okay. HEA.
I liked this one, but there is very little conflict. There's a nice travelogue about Jamaica and some interesting observations of art and artists. The hero is very supportive of the heroine's career - unlike her mentor who told her to stick to illustrations - probably out of professional jealousy. The hero is pretty great. (Guy in glasses!) He was the youngest after four girls and he just did his own thing and never invested in their drama. He didn't want to marry until he did and he explained his change of mind charmingly. There was a recurring bit where everyone remarked that it was a funny time to visit Jamaica right after a hurricane.
Read if you're in the mood for something a little different but with low conflict.
This is a fun, angst free story set in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. The heroine is an orphaned artist from Cornwall. The older artist who mentored her and his wife have betrayed her at the beginning of the story. Seems the older artists did a series of scantily clad studies of her when she was 17. The artist's wife gets the bright idea that they (and his current work) would sell better if she told the press a pack of lies how her husband had an affair with the young heroine while she was living in their house.
Her fiance jilts her and everyone in the village is talking about her. The artist's wife keeps adding details to keep the story in the news. The heroine is hiding from the paparazzi when she sees an ad in the paper to sublet a villa in Jamaica for the month of November. She takes the money she had been saving for her wedding and books it.
The H/h meet cute when the heroine brains him with a statue when the hero enters his villa at two in the morning. She breaks his glasses - which is too bad since she is described as stunningly beautiful and the hero is very bad-tempered with her until she drives him into town the next day for a new pair. Turns out the hero's former tenant placed the ad as a money making scheme and the hero knew nothing about it.
The hero wants the heroine gone yesterday, but the heroine adamantly refuses to go to a hotel because she saw her picture on a tabloid magazine at shop in Jamaica. The story has followed her across the Atlantic. While she doesn't think the natives would read the magazine, she thinks the tourist at the hotel would and would recognize her. A hurricane had roared through six weeks before and housing is in short supply. The H/h will just have to stay together.
They manage to get along with the heroine out sketching all day and the hero off overseeing his coffee plantation and helping rebuild. At night he works on his architecture projects (He owns a firm in London and has a house there as well. ) and the heroine paints.
Not a lot happens, really. The hero makes a pass at her and then pulls back explaining he will never marry and she doesn't seem that sort of girl. His two sisters make their disapproval of the h quite clear. They have an OW in mind, but the hero just ignores them.
The heroine dreads the hero finding out about her "affair" with her mentor because she doesn't think he'll believe her since the people who have known her her whole life didn't believe her. She even takes pages out of his magazine from England so he won't know.
After charming the locals with her paintings (the hero is an art connoisseur and encourages her to branch out into more impressionistic landscapes), it's time for the heroine to leave. Unbeknownst to the heroine, the hero has obtained the two seat bicycle, but before he can propose his sister shows him the magazine with the heroine's "affair." The heroine drives away because she can't bear to have the hero be disappointed in her. He catches up to her and tells her he believes her. His big surprise is ruined, but that's okay. HEA.
I liked this one, but there is very little conflict. There's a nice travelogue about Jamaica and some interesting observations of art and artists. The hero is very supportive of the heroine's career - unlike her mentor who told her to stick to illustrations - probably out of professional jealousy. The hero is pretty great. (Guy in glasses!) He was the youngest after four girls and he just did his own thing and never invested in their drama. He didn't want to marry until he did and he explained his change of mind charmingly. There was a recurring bit where everyone remarked that it was a funny time to visit Jamaica right after a hurricane.
Read if you're in the mood for something a little different but with low conflict.
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June 29, 2024
The commitment-phobe manwhore proposes to her by buying them a two-seater bicycle: He is ready for life a deux :)
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May 28, 2018
Pretty cute. 2.5 stars. No real angst.
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