Chance Tomorrow

by Dixie Browning

After her father's death, Leah Deerfield is nearly destitute. Her last hope is with her stepmother in Australia; but it isn't long before Leah realizes she is an unwelcome visitor.

Seeking to escape the confines of an ocean cruise with her troublemaking cousins, Leah jumps ship only to end up a stowaway on the yacht of Smith Cairington.

En route to his private and beautiful Chance Island, Smith has Leah playing "Friday" to his "Robinson Crusoe." Yet the idyllic peace they both crave is quickly disrupted by their own rising passions and an unexpected visitor--Smith's fiancee.

188 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1981

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

[AvidReader · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75 stars ⭐️.
Loved the beginning where a clueless, naive and sheltered heroine had to learn everything from ironing to cooking with the help of hero and the ending when hero poured his heart out to tge heroine.
The middle part where wanna be OW started showing her face, totally ruined it. It also didn’t help that hero was friendly with ow and didn’t understand heroine’s feelings that time. In fact he was nearly indifferent to heroine.
I also wasn’t fan of hero calling heroine ’child’ though to be fair she was way younger than him.
Safe and recommended.

[Margo · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book gets a solid 3.5 stars. It's entertaining and low-stakes. The age difference and the H's paternalistic manner could be a little creepy, but he was kind and teasing to the h throughout. The OW had a strong presence but she was only a threat in the h's head -- there is no way that the OW's impressive skills, age appropriateness, and bossy ways were ever going to appeal to the H, who obviously preferred a love interest who hero worshiped him.

[Gilke · Rating 1 out of 5]

(...) voordat ze enig protest kon uiten, had hij haar ruw tegen zijn borst getrokken en zwaaide met haar mee, heen en weer, heen en weer, alsof hij een baby wiegde. 'Kom, liefje, denk je nu echt dat ik zo'n monster ben, nee toch? Huil niet meer, kindje (...)'

Hij is 30, zij is 20. Zelfs voor een romance uit 1981 is het wat overdreven om het hoofdpersonage om de zoveel zinnen met 'kindje' of andere schattige verkleinwoordjes af te zwakken.

[Monique · Rating 2 out of 5]

Star Rating: ★½☆☆☆