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Dream Island
Grown-up hearts could be badly broken...
Laraine was tired of being treated like a child--she was nineteen, with a woman's feelings! But how could she convince Neal Hansen of that?
Neal claimed not to believe in love, yet Laraine sensed his attachment to the woman who'd let him down badly; and at their Bahamian estate he played up to her beautiful, widowed sister-in-law, Adele.
If only he would take Laraine--and her love--seriously!
Laraine was tired of being treated like a child--she was nineteen, with a woman's feelings! But how could she convince Neal Hansen of that?
Neal claimed not to believe in love, yet Laraine sensed his attachment to the woman who'd let him down badly; and at their Bahamian estate he played up to her beautiful, widowed sister-in-law, Adele.
If only he would take Laraine--and her love--seriously!
186 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1981
About the author
Roumelia Lane
55 books8 followersKay Green
aka Roumelia Lane, Florissa May, Guy Granger, Katie Kent, Harley Davis
Kay Green was born on 31 December 1927 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK. On 1 October 1949, she married Gavin Frederick Green, they had a son and a daughter.
aka Roumelia Lane, Florissa May, Guy Granger, Katie Kent, Harley Davis
Kay Green was born on 31 December 1927 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK. On 1 October 1949, she married Gavin Frederick Green, they had a son and a daughter.
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July 9, 2025
This was not a nice romance.
Heroine (19) makes puppy eyes at the pilot hero (30s), whilst he charms her beautiful sister-in-law and dreams about his sexy air hostess girlfriend, who makes a physical appearance towards the end of the book.
He's not blown over by the heroine, there is no chemistry and he even tries to get her together with another man. She watches and pines for him pathetically, whilst he treats her like he does the dog.
It's so embarrassing.
The girl-friend had lost him his job because she involved him in smuggling, but he STILL loved her. It is only a couple of pages from the end that he dumps her and straightaway becomes engaged to the heroine (still no passion) and then talks about how he had not really seen her as a woman because he was thinking of the gf as his great love, and then talks about the SIL and her new bf.
Roumelia Lane's books veer from wonderfully engaging to really quite horrid. This one is firmly on the latter side.
1 star.
Heroine (19) makes puppy eyes at the pilot hero (30s), whilst he charms her beautiful sister-in-law and dreams about his sexy air hostess girlfriend, who makes a physical appearance towards the end of the book.
He's not blown over by the heroine, there is no chemistry and he even tries to get her together with another man. She watches and pines for him pathetically, whilst he treats her like he does the dog.
It's so embarrassing.
The girl-friend had lost him his job because she involved him in smuggling, but he STILL loved her. It is only a couple of pages from the end that he dumps her and straightaway becomes engaged to the heroine (still no passion) and then talks about how he had not really seen her as a woman because he was thinking of the gf as his great love, and then talks about the SIL and her new bf.
Roumelia Lane's books veer from wonderfully engaging to really quite horrid. This one is firmly on the latter side.
1 star.
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January 22, 2025
This was the most unromantic Harlequin I think I've ever read. The MFC was a passive doormat who silently tagged along everywhere as an unwanted 3rd (or 4th) party and let herself be patronized by everyone ... especially the MMC, who repeatedly referred to her as an infant, nipper, child, kid, etc. The main romance up to the 2/3rd mark was between the MMC and the MFC's black widow sister-in-law, and then the OW makes her appearance. By the time his ILY makes an appearance on the 3rd-to-last page, it's a little too late to be convincing due to the utter lack of romance between the leads. (4 pages before the end, the MFC is about to enter into an unwanted engagement because the MMC thinks she should marry the OM, and she's so in love with the MMC she'd do anything he says! Perhaps he wasn't so far off the mark when he kept bringing up how wet behind the ears she was...)
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