Dorothy Quentin

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Jane Lesley met Steve Forrest when he was staying at her guest house in England. On the last evening of his stay, he asked Jane to marry him and she agreed. She sold her guest house and moved to the Australian outback with her disabled but beautiful sister, Lisa, two weeks later, only to discover that the Steve Forrest who received them at Blue River was not the same person she had agreed to marry!

The person Jane actually met at the guest house was Steve's immensely jealous and distant criminal cousin, Stewart Finch. He did it as an overly corrupt joke, or maybe he really meant to marry Jane to get land off Steve. In any case, the author killed him off towards the end.

The real Steve thought Jane was in on the cruel joke with Stewart at the beginning, but then he changed his mind. They got on well after that, but Steve paid an unusually large amount of time with Lisa. After the HEA, the author never explained why Steve spent so much time with Lisa than Jane that I really don't know what to make of it. Still, despite that and all the things that wouldn't now be considered politically correct, the story was a pleasant read for a book written in the late sixties.

Although most of the story was in Jane's perspective, sometimes the author shifts to the other character's POV. I really liked that.… (plus d'informations)