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Hepburn's Quay
Carla couldn't make up her mind
When Carla Francis inherited Hepburn's Quay, a house in Scotland, she planned to turn it into a small hotel. She was counting on Tom Laxey's support as a business partner. Tom, however, had another kind of partnership in mind.
Meeting Alex Hepburn again fanned the embers of Carla's childhood infatuation for him. But Alex was only interested in acquiring Hepburn's Quay.
What should she do? Marry Tom? Or give in to the demands of the domineering Alex?
When Carla Francis inherited Hepburn's Quay, a house in Scotland, she planned to turn it into a small hotel. She was counting on Tom Laxey's support as a business partner. Tom, however, had another kind of partnership in mind.
Meeting Alex Hepburn again fanned the embers of Carla's childhood infatuation for him. But Alex was only interested in acquiring Hepburn's Quay.
What should she do? Marry Tom? Or give in to the demands of the domineering Alex?
- GenresHarlequin Romance
191 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1979
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February 16, 2021
Heroine inherits “Hepburn’s Quay”, her Grampy’s Scottish countryside hovel, which stands right next to a distant cousin’s Western-style cattle ranch. When she was a teenager spending every summer at Grampy’s home, she had a big crush on the cousin despite or perhaps because of him being 12 years older than her and already a widower with a young son. Naturally, he paid no attention to her. Now it’s 6 years since she last saw him and he’s as surly as ever and trying to convince her to sell her property to him.
They are both saddled respectively with a pair of worthless OM and OW who, in my opinion, they both led on quite ruthlessly while secretly exchanging Passionate Kisses whenever they had a moment alone together. They were both pretty much cheaters, which never really augurs well for a romantic HEA.
But the real villain of the piece is not a jealous OM or catty OW, surprisingly. It is the hero’s horror of a teenaged son. Machiavellian in his manipulations, selfishness and petty revenges, he does and says so many under-handed things and makes so much mischief that I truly get a cold shiver down my spine when I think of what else he has in store as he grows up. The worst thing he does in the book, and he’s only fifteen years old, is that he takes out his father’s prize stallion, rides him without permission and stupidly forces him to jump too high a hurdle. The result is that a magnificent creature is cut down in his prime, suffering in agony at his broken legs before finally being shot in the head in a mercy killing. And this little horror not only doesn’t get any sort of comeuppance but he has the nerve of wanting to become a veterinarian!!!! Why? So he can have easy access to more animals he can torture? I would advise this heroine to send her stepson in a boarding school a few galaxies over if she plans to have a Happily Ever After with her husband and future kids, otherwise she may very well wake up with a bloody horse’s head in her bed *shudder*
They are both saddled respectively with a pair of worthless OM and OW who, in my opinion, they both led on quite ruthlessly while secretly exchanging Passionate Kisses whenever they had a moment alone together. They were both pretty much cheaters, which never really augurs well for a romantic HEA.
But the real villain of the piece is not a jealous OM or catty OW, surprisingly. It is the hero’s horror of a teenaged son. Machiavellian in his manipulations, selfishness and petty revenges, he does and says so many under-handed things and makes so much mischief that I truly get a cold shiver down my spine when I think of what else he has in store as he grows up. The worst thing he does in the book, and he’s only fifteen years old, is that he takes out his father’s prize stallion, rides him without permission and stupidly forces him to jump too high a hurdle. The result is that a magnificent creature is cut down in his prime, suffering in agony at his broken legs before finally being shot in the head in a mercy killing. And this little horror not only doesn’t get any sort of comeuppance but he has the nerve of wanting to become a veterinarian!!!! Why? So he can have easy access to more animals he can torture? I would advise this heroine to send her stepson in a boarding school a few galaxies over if she plans to have a Happily Ever After with her husband and future kids, otherwise she may very well wake up with a bloody horse’s head in her bed *shudder*
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December 21, 2021
Naksed's review was spot-on but I wanted emphasize that there is some seriously offensive anti-Tinker sentiment throughout the book. (Tinker is an outdated and offensive name that was applied to Irish travelers, akin to Gypsy.)
January 27, 2013
Sometimes one just can't see what the heroine sees in the hero to make them give up so much.
December 30, 2023
Wat het hart al wist
October 3, 2018
Okay read a bit too formulaic.
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