This country was like O'Reilly, she thought both the man and his land frightened her and disturbed her and attracted her, all at the same time. Seductive thoughts.Ī lovely story and this author is becoming a favourite, especially her tales that are set in the Australian outback. But there is an attraction between O'Reilly and Amanda. The two older children don't want her around and do their best to make her feel unwelcome.
O'Reilly is a rough and ready rancher, trying to tame the land and make a living. Bloody hell, he didn't even like her.Īfter her employer dies, Amanda Davenport takes the job as a governess for O'Reilly and his three children until such time as she can earn enough money to pay her fare for the boat back to England.Īmanda is a prim and proper lady. She was too feminine and delicate, too straight-laced and corset-pinched, too ostentatiously virtuous, too English. O'Reilly, a man of Irish descent whose ancestors were convicts sent from Ireland by "The Crown" - these "convicts" might only have stolen a loaf of bread but the Irish, under British rule, didn't have many rights or privileges so off they were sent on convict ships! But, once you did your time and you earned your freedom, you could make your mark, travel, buy land, but if the conditions are hard and the rains don't arrive, times are hard. set in Australia, in the 19th century, it was a tough place to settle and try and make a living and survive with droughts, crop failure, vast landscapes and little interaction with neighbours or friends (many of whom live miles and miles from your own homestead). This is my third book by Candice Proctor and it was another solid four star read. Despite her fears, Amanda gradually awakens to the shimmering heat of this wild primitive land, to the children she can't help but love, and to this magnificent man whose raw sensuality dares to expose her own undeniable passion.
Amanda Davenport seems unprepared for the harshness of the place O'Reilly calls home, and yet he finds himself inexplicably drawn to this proud woman and the fire he knows exists beneath her refined exterior.Īccepting a job as governess is the only way Amanda can earn passage back to her beloved England and away from this land that she hates-rugged, uncivilized, intoxicating, like Patrick O'Reilly himself. The last thing he wants is the prim and proper Englishwoman who arrives to care for his unruly children.
All he needs is his land, his work, and the company of the children he adores. Patrick O'Reilly loves life in the wilderness. In this, her third novel, the multitalented author of Night in Eden returns to the glorious setting of nineteenth-century Australia, to the ancient, primal vistas of the outback, to a land as untamed as a man's soul.
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