Reeve McKenna and his brother, Jamie are separated as teenagers in Ireland as Jamie is transported for thievery and Reeve departs on a whaling ship for Australia. 20 years have passed and Reeve has spent a good portion of that time trying to find his brother.
Maggie Chamberlain is an actress in London who believes Philip when he tells her he loves her and has her travel to Sydney as an indigent who will then be expected to repay her passage as a servant for three years unless she marries. Of course, Philip has no intention of marrying her and even fails to appear when the ship finally arrives. Maggie is thrust into a situation that is totally beyond her abilities. She has hot hunky men after her, mortal enemies Duncan and Reeve.
I picked this up because I'm fascinated with Australia and hoped to get some good descriptions of the surrounding countryside so I could enjoy Australia vicariously. Unfortunately, there wasn't much "Australia" in the story at all. Yes it took place in Sydney, Brisbane and Queensland but beyond the description of the ocean and the houses, there wasn't much Australian to be had. Oh well, the story was okay but not great. The animosity between Duncan and Reeve was fun. The whore Loretta bopping back and forth between them was annoying. And Eleanor, what a scank.
I simply felt that it was dragged out much further than need be and it didn't even get exciting until about 250 pages in after the whaling accident. Then the action ramped up and it finally turned into a page-turner as expected of a novel by Linda Lael Miller. Interestingly enough, I was more interested in Jamie's story and can't wait to get my hands on that book, Angelfire.
Maggie Chamberlain is an actress in London who believes Philip when he tells her he loves her and has her travel to Sydney as an indigent who will then be expected to repay her passage as a servant for three years unless she marries. Of course, Philip has no intention of marrying her and even fails to appear when the ship finally arrives. Maggie is thrust into a situation that is totally beyond her abilities. She has hot hunky men after her, mortal enemies Duncan and Reeve.
I picked this up because I'm fascinated with Australia and hoped to get some good descriptions of the surrounding countryside so I could enjoy Australia vicariously. Unfortunately, there wasn't much "Australia" in the story at all. Yes it took place in Sydney, Brisbane and Queensland but beyond the description of the ocean and the houses, there wasn't much Australian to be had. Oh well, the story was okay but not great. The animosity between Duncan and Reeve was fun. The whore Loretta bopping back and forth between them was annoying. And Eleanor, what a scank.
I simply felt that it was dragged out much further than need be and it didn't even get exciting until about 250 pages in after the whaling accident. Then the action ramped up and it finally turned into a page-turner as expected of a novel by Linda Lael Miller. Interestingly enough, I was more interested in Jamie's story and can't wait to get my hands on that book, Angelfire.
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