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"See what you've got me into-"
Finley wished she'd never set eyes on the woeful stray spaniel that led her into Blake Caird's realm. For although she was bound to recover from the pneumonia that had prompted her vacation, she'd never get over a man like Blake.
What passed between them cut deeper than mere attraction, was more searing than physical passion. It was a recognition-an awareness that there was no going back. But Finley had to return to work sometime. She couldn't share Blake's isolated island paradise forever.
Living together seemed impossible-but living apart was infinitely worse...
Finley wished she'd never set eyes on the woeful stray spaniel that led her into Blake Caird's realm. For although she was bound to recover from the pneumonia that had prompted her vacation, she'd never get over a man like Blake.
What passed between them cut deeper than mere attraction, was more searing than physical passion. It was a recognition-an awareness that there was no going back. But Finley had to return to work sometime. She couldn't share Blake's isolated island paradise forever.
Living together seemed impossible-but living apart was infinitely worse...
First published May 1, 1987
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Robyn Donald
467 books137 followersRobyn Elaine Donald was born on 14 August 1940 in Northland, New Zealand. She was the oldest child in her family, and as a child, she thrilled her four sisters and one brother with bloodcurdling adventure tales, usually very like the latest book she'd borrowed from the library.
Robyn owes her writing career to two illnesses. The first was a younger sister's flu. She was living with her husband and Robyn and spent most of that winter acquiring, suffering, and recovering from various infections. One day she croaked that she had read everything on Robyn's bookshelves, so would Robyn please buy her something cheerful and sustaining. Robyn found three paperbacks- one Mills and Boon Modern Romance novel and a couple of other romances. Robyn read them, too, of course, and so enjoyed them she spent the next couple of years hunting down more Mills and Boon books. This was much more difficult then than it is today, so she decided to write her own, and for the following busy 10 years she wrote and hoped that one day she would finish a manuscript good enough that was good enough to send to a publisher.
The second illness was her husband's, and it was bad a heart attack. He was so young it terrified them all. While he was recovering, he suggested that Robyn finish the manuscript she was writing and send it off. It wasn't a perfect manuscript, but the doctor had said to humour her husband, so she finished the manuscript, edited it as best she could, and sent it off. Three months later, she was astounded to read a letter from the editor saying that if She made a few revisions they would buy her novel Bride at Whangatapu.
Published since 1977, Robyn sees her readers as intelligent women who insist on accurate backgrounds, so she spends time researching as well as writing.Robyn Donald sometimes thinks that writing is much like gardening. It's a similar process creating landscapes for the mind and emotions from the seeds of ideas and dreams and images. Both activities can also lead to moments of extreme delight, moments of total despair, and backache.Now Robyn lives in the Bay Islands. She continues writing, and also finds time for a very supportive husband, two adult children and their partners, a granddaughter and her mother, not to mention the member of the family that keeps her fit - a loud, cheerful, and ruthlessly determined "almost" Labradordog.
Robyn owes her writing career to two illnesses. The first was a younger sister's flu. She was living with her husband and Robyn and spent most of that winter acquiring, suffering, and recovering from various infections. One day she croaked that she had read everything on Robyn's bookshelves, so would Robyn please buy her something cheerful and sustaining. Robyn found three paperbacks- one Mills and Boon Modern Romance novel and a couple of other romances. Robyn read them, too, of course, and so enjoyed them she spent the next couple of years hunting down more Mills and Boon books. This was much more difficult then than it is today, so she decided to write her own, and for the following busy 10 years she wrote and hoped that one day she would finish a manuscript good enough that was good enough to send to a publisher.
The second illness was her husband's, and it was bad a heart attack. He was so young it terrified them all. While he was recovering, he suggested that Robyn finish the manuscript she was writing and send it off. It wasn't a perfect manuscript, but the doctor had said to humour her husband, so she finished the manuscript, edited it as best she could, and sent it off. Three months later, she was astounded to read a letter from the editor saying that if She made a few revisions they would buy her novel Bride at Whangatapu.
Published since 1977, Robyn sees her readers as intelligent women who insist on accurate backgrounds, so she spends time researching as well as writing.Robyn Donald sometimes thinks that writing is much like gardening. It's a similar process creating landscapes for the mind and emotions from the seeds of ideas and dreams and images. Both activities can also lead to moments of extreme delight, moments of total despair, and backache.Now Robyn lives in the Bay Islands. She continues writing, and also finds time for a very supportive husband, two adult children and their partners, a granddaughter and her mother, not to mention the member of the family that keeps her fit - a loud, cheerful, and ruthlessly determined "almost" Labradordog.
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July 5, 2017
Re Country of the Heart - This one is probably one of the nicest RD H's ever, he isn't really violent, there is no angry hate words to the h - in fact this is a total LOVE story- and I mean that in the most romantic fashion.
The problem with spoilerizations on a total love story is that nothing much happens, there aren't raging OW, there aren't blackmails, seekrit babies, interfering in laws or evil minions. There is just two people falling in love and the most adventure we get is the when the spaniel who acquired the h runs through the kitchen playing with his next door neighbor best friend kitten. That isn't a lot to write about.
But where is the drama? one might ask. Don't all stories have to have some sort of tension, and plus this is HPlandia - you can't be in HPlandia without some huge obstacle or 20 to overcome. How is the H and h going to prove the worthiness of their love with no scheming OW for the h to hide from in the ladies room, or insidious blackmail plot that has to be given up cause true love overcomes all, and anyways the h did not do it to begin with- the H was just being short sighted. How is the h ever going to get a marriage proposal without holding a blue blanketed adorable plot moppet tenderly tucked into her loving arms?
I don't know, but RD managed to do it with this one. She takes an h who is a 26yr old doctor, working towards a pediatric specialty with all the attendant years of schooling and residency, has her recovering from pneumonia on a New Zealand Bay of Islands paradise and has her meet the love of her life, the owner of the aforesaid island over the discovery of an abandoned black spaniel who decides the h is his forever home.
So the h is staying on the hotel on the island of Motuaroha- the island of love in Māori (which is in real life the island of Motuarohia - which I think means beloved island in Māori- but it is really a big nature preserve so our H can't own it.) and finds the dog, then the H finds her. She is really tiny and he is really big and they commiserate on how their appearance gives people certain assumptions about them. Like the h is a kid and the H is a big lummox.
The H is a widower whose high society beauty wife killed herself when she threw a big temper tantrum over going to a mainland party during a storm. She took off in a launch and couldn't handle the boat and drowned when it wrecked. The H loves his island, it is the one place in the world he never wants to leave, tho he does venture off from time to time to look out for his many business interests. (He is the cousin of the H from A Willing Surrender and just as wealthy, powerful and Alpha - but he is a farming kinda guy instead of an international businessman.)
The h knows the couple from A Willing Surrender too, she is the doctor that delivered their first child, so when they visit during the course of the h's stay, we get to see them still happily in love and with a plot moppet. The h winds up staying in the H's home, Blackie the dog won't eat or drink when the H takes him back to his house, so the only thing to do is have the h stay with him while he recovers from his doggie abandonment breakdown. (Which was a nice recovery, Blackie is soon well fed and happy and devoted to his h. The h worries that she doesn't have time for a dog, but she loves him anyway and he picked her, so they are matched for life.)
The h spends a few weeks recovering and falling in love, and they do fall in love with a real relationship - the process is described really well, we see that these two are really compatible. With one exception, the h has been working for years for her dream of a pedi specialty and the H won't leave his island - there is no place for the h to pursue her career if she lives with the H on his island. So because both are so dedicated to their chosen paths, they won't be able to marry and build a life together. Their careers are too incompatible, cause you can't move an island and there isn't enough permanent residents to justify a doctor.
Finally on the night before the h is due to leave, they wind up lurvin it up. The h is a chaste person because she never wanted to sacrifice the emotional energy to a love affair when she was so driven in her career goals. Plus she was engaged once, but the guy wanted her to quit her studies to run around after him and she wasn't interested. He really only engaged himself to her cause he wanted to get her into bed, he did not succeed at that either. The h never felt the kind of passion she has for the H with anyone else, and tho she knows it is going to hurt, in the end she can't resist the H's lurve mojo.
She leaves the island, resolved never to go back. But she has her work and Blackie and even better, her next door neighbor has a new Siamese kitten named Pippa who never minds if Blackie and she can hang out together while the h is away. The pain of separation is killing her tho, and there is a lot of sorrow while the h moves about her daily life and continues her hospital residency and studies. The h is suffering the terrible pain of a missing beloved. Then the H shows up again, they decide to try a long distance affair. That lasts for a few weeks and then the H breaks.
He needs the h more than he needs his island, so he goes to buy another farm on the mainland. If the h will give up her pediatric specialty and be a general practitioner, they can move to the new valley farm. The place needs a doctor and the H can build a big farm from scratch. They will visit his island and if they both compromise they can marry for the big HEA. The h considers this a no-brainer. She would have liked the specialty but she likes the H more and so they are lurvin it up for a new life together and Blackie will have to make due with weekend visits from his kitten BFF.
This was a good story, and the emotional intensity was high. The h was nice, the H was even nicer and I liked how they both had to compromise to get a life together. Read this one when you just want a good romance. Don't expect fireworks here tho, just the slow steady burn of a really sweet love story - apparently that can happen even in a place like HPlandia.
The problem with spoilerizations on a total love story is that nothing much happens, there aren't raging OW, there aren't blackmails, seekrit babies, interfering in laws or evil minions. There is just two people falling in love and the most adventure we get is the when the spaniel who acquired the h runs through the kitchen playing with his next door neighbor best friend kitten. That isn't a lot to write about.
But where is the drama? one might ask. Don't all stories have to have some sort of tension, and plus this is HPlandia - you can't be in HPlandia without some huge obstacle or 20 to overcome. How is the H and h going to prove the worthiness of their love with no scheming OW for the h to hide from in the ladies room, or insidious blackmail plot that has to be given up cause true love overcomes all, and anyways the h did not do it to begin with- the H was just being short sighted. How is the h ever going to get a marriage proposal without holding a blue blanketed adorable plot moppet tenderly tucked into her loving arms?
I don't know, but RD managed to do it with this one. She takes an h who is a 26yr old doctor, working towards a pediatric specialty with all the attendant years of schooling and residency, has her recovering from pneumonia on a New Zealand Bay of Islands paradise and has her meet the love of her life, the owner of the aforesaid island over the discovery of an abandoned black spaniel who decides the h is his forever home.
So the h is staying on the hotel on the island of Motuaroha- the island of love in Māori (which is in real life the island of Motuarohia - which I think means beloved island in Māori- but it is really a big nature preserve so our H can't own it.) and finds the dog, then the H finds her. She is really tiny and he is really big and they commiserate on how their appearance gives people certain assumptions about them. Like the h is a kid and the H is a big lummox.
The H is a widower whose high society beauty wife killed herself when she threw a big temper tantrum over going to a mainland party during a storm. She took off in a launch and couldn't handle the boat and drowned when it wrecked. The H loves his island, it is the one place in the world he never wants to leave, tho he does venture off from time to time to look out for his many business interests. (He is the cousin of the H from A Willing Surrender and just as wealthy, powerful and Alpha - but he is a farming kinda guy instead of an international businessman.)
The h knows the couple from A Willing Surrender too, she is the doctor that delivered their first child, so when they visit during the course of the h's stay, we get to see them still happily in love and with a plot moppet. The h winds up staying in the H's home, Blackie the dog won't eat or drink when the H takes him back to his house, so the only thing to do is have the h stay with him while he recovers from his doggie abandonment breakdown. (Which was a nice recovery, Blackie is soon well fed and happy and devoted to his h. The h worries that she doesn't have time for a dog, but she loves him anyway and he picked her, so they are matched for life.)
The h spends a few weeks recovering and falling in love, and they do fall in love with a real relationship - the process is described really well, we see that these two are really compatible. With one exception, the h has been working for years for her dream of a pedi specialty and the H won't leave his island - there is no place for the h to pursue her career if she lives with the H on his island. So because both are so dedicated to their chosen paths, they won't be able to marry and build a life together. Their careers are too incompatible, cause you can't move an island and there isn't enough permanent residents to justify a doctor.
Finally on the night before the h is due to leave, they wind up lurvin it up. The h is a chaste person because she never wanted to sacrifice the emotional energy to a love affair when she was so driven in her career goals. Plus she was engaged once, but the guy wanted her to quit her studies to run around after him and she wasn't interested. He really only engaged himself to her cause he wanted to get her into bed, he did not succeed at that either. The h never felt the kind of passion she has for the H with anyone else, and tho she knows it is going to hurt, in the end she can't resist the H's lurve mojo.
She leaves the island, resolved never to go back. But she has her work and Blackie and even better, her next door neighbor has a new Siamese kitten named Pippa who never minds if Blackie and she can hang out together while the h is away. The pain of separation is killing her tho, and there is a lot of sorrow while the h moves about her daily life and continues her hospital residency and studies. The h is suffering the terrible pain of a missing beloved. Then the H shows up again, they decide to try a long distance affair. That lasts for a few weeks and then the H breaks.
He needs the h more than he needs his island, so he goes to buy another farm on the mainland. If the h will give up her pediatric specialty and be a general practitioner, they can move to the new valley farm. The place needs a doctor and the H can build a big farm from scratch. They will visit his island and if they both compromise they can marry for the big HEA. The h considers this a no-brainer. She would have liked the specialty but she likes the H more and so they are lurvin it up for a new life together and Blackie will have to make due with weekend visits from his kitten BFF.
This was a good story, and the emotional intensity was high. The h was nice, the H was even nicer and I liked how they both had to compromise to get a life together. Read this one when you just want a good romance. Don't expect fireworks here tho, just the slow steady burn of a really sweet love story - apparently that can happen even in a place like HPlandia.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 23, 2017
Sweet story of a doctor heroine recovering from pneumonia on an island off the coast of New Zealand and the millionaire station owner hero who falls for her at first sight. The H/h meet when a stray dog also falls in love with the heroine at first sight and won't leave her. The heroine is staying at a hotel and can't keep the dog with her. The hero takes him, but the poor animal cries all night for the heroine. The hero convinces her she needs to stay at his huge house for the dog's sake.
The big conflict is that the hero doesn't want to leave this island and the heroine wants to go on a specialize in pediatrics. How they work out their life/work balance comprises the rest of the story. Hint: compromise.
There is a wanna be OW who was friends with the hero's first wife (who died trying to escape the island). And there are cameos by H/h from A Willing Surrender. But not a lot of drama. The H/h are well suited and although it takes them awhile to work out their problems they are never mean to each other or hurtful. Just a nice story all around with a dog and bonus kitten when the heroine returns to the city.
The big conflict is that the hero doesn't want to leave this island and the heroine wants to go on a specialize in pediatrics. How they work out their life/work balance comprises the rest of the story. Hint: compromise.
There is a wanna be OW who was friends with the hero's first wife (who died trying to escape the island). And there are cameos by H/h from A Willing Surrender. But not a lot of drama. The H/h are well suited and although it takes them awhile to work out their problems they are never mean to each other or hurtful. Just a nice story all around with a dog and bonus kitten when the heroine returns to the city.
November 11, 2017
DNF@93%
when hero absolutely without doubt rapes the heroine, the "love of his life".
He is also an extremely violent person, who uses physical force and strength to overcome heroine at every situation.
So no, I don't see the romance here.
I see a future for heroine with assaults and abuse.
when hero absolutely without doubt rapes the heroine, the "love of his life".
He is also an extremely violent person, who uses physical force and strength to overcome heroine at every situation.
So no, I don't see the romance here.
I see a future for heroine with assaults and abuse.
June 20, 2024
He's a little bit country. She’s a little bit rock'n'roll. That’s how the song goes and that’s a little bit of what happens when the modern city girl meets the old-fashioned country guy in Robyn Donald's Kiwi romance, Country of the Heart.
The cattle rancher hero reigns supreme over his little island off the coast of New Zealand, like a feudal lord with his lowly peasant subjects. One disastrous marriage under the belt has reinforced his belief that it is his vast kingdom he should be married to, not a flesh and blood woman. Land is solid, constant and eternal. But women, particularly city women, are fickle, bored and boring.
The doctor heroine dreams of becoming a pediatric surgeon and she is well on her way, with five years at the hospital under her belt already, but many, many more to go before she can become a specialist. A dog brings them together, lust crashes them together, and finally, love binds them together.
The cattle rancher hero reigns supreme over his little island off the coast of New Zealand, like a feudal lord with his lowly peasant subjects. One disastrous marriage under the belt has reinforced his belief that it is his vast kingdom he should be married to, not a flesh and blood woman. Land is solid, constant and eternal. But women, particularly city women, are fickle, bored and boring.
The doctor heroine dreams of becoming a pediatric surgeon and she is well on her way, with five years at the hospital under her belt already, but many, many more to go before she can become a specialist. A dog brings them together, lust crashes them together, and finally, love binds them together.
October 11, 2021
A rather lovely romance with a likeable hero and heroine. Hero was deep and intense but not nasty and cruel (surprising for Robyn Donald). Loved the heroine. She was smart and determined while being kind-hearted and appealing. I could see how they would fall for each other.
Not much angst, but instead, a realistic story of two people trying to forge their lives together despite different vocations.
I really enjoyed it.
Not much angst, but instead, a realistic story of two people trying to forge their lives together despite different vocations.
I really enjoyed it.
September 9, 2018
After reading %75 of the book, I' ve decided that it was not worth it so DNF. (Yep, i was slow or maybe too positive) Plot was good but hero was not cruel. lol
December 22, 2020
Since she was five years old, Finley MacMillan knew she was going to be a doctor and as she got older she’d decided on pediatrics. She’s completed her first stages and is now embarking on her specialist training and residencies. Working grueling hours, she contracts a serious bout of pneumonia that forces her to put her training and career on hold for a month’s medical leave on an island off the coast of New Zealand. Blake Caird owns the island that is made up of the hotel resort and his homestead, cattle ranch. The island is his haven, his deepest love, and he’s vowed never to get involved with anyone who can’t accept the isolation of his home. Thanks to an abandoned spaniel, Finley and Blake are brought together. Blake makes it clear from the start that he desires Finley and wouldn’t mind an affair during her stay on the island. Finley responds that she’s not the affair type; that because of her vocation to medicine she can’t afford the distractions and risks of an affair. But as the two spend more time together, their attraction only burns hotter and their love deeper. It’s no good though; neither can expect the other to give up their dreams; Blake’s of his island home and Finley’s of becoming a pediatrician.
This one was just the book to follow the intensely emotional Medical I just finished. Robyn Donald is a wonderful author. Even though we rarely get the hero’s POV, Ms. Donald is a master of showing us through actions, dialogue and tone the hearts of her heroes. Blake’s feelings for Finley are never in doubt, and nor are Findley’s to Blake. Here is the classic conflict of lives meeting but set on different paths that can only lead to separate journeys. There are some truly wonderful scenes where the couple realizes it can never work and their hearts are breaking. Theirs is a hard won HEA, and a very satisfying one.
This one was just the book to follow the intensely emotional Medical I just finished. Robyn Donald is a wonderful author. Even though we rarely get the hero’s POV, Ms. Donald is a master of showing us through actions, dialogue and tone the hearts of her heroes. Blake’s feelings for Finley are never in doubt, and nor are Findley’s to Blake. Here is the classic conflict of lives meeting but set on different paths that can only lead to separate journeys. There are some truly wonderful scenes where the couple realizes it can never work and their hearts are breaking. Theirs is a hard won HEA, and a very satisfying one.
March 30, 2021
"See what you've got me into-"
Finley wished she'd never set eyes on the woeful stray spaniel that led her into Blake Caird's realm. For although she was bound to recover from the pneumonia that had prompted her vacation, she'd never get over a man like Blake.
What passed between them cut deeper than mere attraction, was more searing than physical passion. It was a recognition-an awareness that there was no going back. But Finley had to return to work sometime. She couldn't share Blake's isolated island paradise forever.
Living together seemed impossible-but living apart was infinitely worse...
Finley wished she'd never set eyes on the woeful stray spaniel that led her into Blake Caird's realm. For although she was bound to recover from the pneumonia that had prompted her vacation, she'd never get over a man like Blake.
What passed between them cut deeper than mere attraction, was more searing than physical passion. It was a recognition-an awareness that there was no going back. But Finley had to return to work sometime. She couldn't share Blake's isolated island paradise forever.
Living together seemed impossible-but living apart was infinitely worse...
July 11, 2022
He is passionate and warm and cuddly with her. He is considerate and affectionate. A wonderful man. She was a virgin when she met him.
He asks her to marry him. She refuses because of her job and she goes back to her own home. Nevertheless he keeps pursuing her.
She doesn’t want to give up her job as a doctor, he doesn’t want to give up his big land with all the cattle on it.
I don’t doubt his love for her, he is besotted, but I do doubt her love for him, that’s why I don’t give it 5 stars, but 4 stars. He fought for their relationship. She didn’t. She would have left him behind and would have moved on just like that.
He asks her to marry him. She refuses because of her job and she goes back to her own home. Nevertheless he keeps pursuing her.
She doesn’t want to give up her job as a doctor, he doesn’t want to give up his big land with all the cattle on it.
I don’t doubt his love for her, he is besotted, but I do doubt her love for him, that’s why I don’t give it 5 stars, but 4 stars. He fought for their relationship. She didn’t. She would have left him behind and would have moved on just like that.
December 24, 2020
Awww! Such a sweet love story ...
adorable h and dynamic but really nice H ... and a love story with no cruelty ...
a sweet love story ...
adorable h and dynamic but really nice H ... and a love story with no cruelty ...
a sweet love story ...
March 6, 2023
Was just okay for me.
Very emotional, very angsty but it just didnt do it for me.
Which was too bad since i really wanted to like it a lot. I liked that the heroine was an dedicated med student, totally focused on being a doctor. I particularly like accomplished heroines. This is really part of the conflict since she will not give up her profession for the Hero.
I liked their dynamic, they got along well, laughed together and were just meant to be, but the Hero lived on an island. They both acknowledge their intense attraction to each other although they cant seem to compromise.
So yes it would have made a brilliant story, but somehow it just sort of fell flat for me.
Very emotional, very angsty but it just didnt do it for me.
Which was too bad since i really wanted to like it a lot. I liked that the heroine was an dedicated med student, totally focused on being a doctor. I particularly like accomplished heroines. This is really part of the conflict since she will not give up her profession for the Hero.
I liked their dynamic, they got along well, laughed together and were just meant to be, but the Hero lived on an island. They both acknowledge their intense attraction to each other although they cant seem to compromise.
So yes it would have made a brilliant story, but somehow it just sort of fell flat for me.
May 6, 2024
"Country of the Heart" is the story of Finley and Blake.
A pediatrics registrar meets a rich guy while she is on a vacation to recover from pneumonia. There is an adorable dog she rescues who acts as a catalyst, and thus begins a battle between mind and heart. She is devoted to her career, he has been burnt by an ex wife. However their passion is too strong to ignore. But will a planned breakup be the end of their relationship?
Smitten hero and heroine, career drama, many sex scenes with one dub con, drama and HEA. Only part I didnt like was the career compromise at the end, but well atleast he didnt make her give up? Small wins..
Safe
4.25/5
A pediatrics registrar meets a rich guy while she is on a vacation to recover from pneumonia. There is an adorable dog she rescues who acts as a catalyst, and thus begins a battle between mind and heart. She is devoted to her career, he has been burnt by an ex wife. However their passion is too strong to ignore. But will a planned breakup be the end of their relationship?
Smitten hero and heroine, career drama, many sex scenes with one dub con, drama and HEA. Only part I didnt like was the career compromise at the end, but well atleast he didnt make her give up? Small wins..
Safe
4.25/5
July 31, 2019
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November 3, 2019
4.5 stars. 1/2 a star off for the aggressive scene towards the end. A harsh kiss would've been better. Love at first sight........nice. I liked the way he always called her "my heart".
November 20, 2019
Color me surprised: a RD books where both leads are human and there's a compromise at the end.
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June 17, 2018"See what you've got me into-"
Finley wished she'd never set eyes on the woeful stray spaniel that led her into Blake Caird's realm. For although she was bound to recover from the pneumonia that had prompted her vacation, she'd never get over a man like Blake.
What passed between them cut deeper than mere attraction, was more searing than physical passion. It was a recognition-an awareness that there was no going back. But Finley had to return to work sometime. She couldn't share Blake's isolated island paradise forever.
Living together seemed impossible-but living apart was infinitely worse...
Finley wished she'd never set eyes on the woeful stray spaniel that led her into Blake Caird's realm. For although she was bound to recover from the pneumonia that had prompted her vacation, she'd never get over a man like Blake.
What passed between them cut deeper than mere attraction, was more searing than physical passion. It was a recognition-an awareness that there was no going back. But Finley had to return to work sometime. She couldn't share Blake's isolated island paradise forever.
Living together seemed impossible-but living apart was infinitely worse...
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