Iris Danbury

The Guarded Gates The assignment in Spain was a challenge and Dionis was assured by her sister that her new fiance had the authority to make changes on behalf of the owner. But Don Juan Vicente de Velez y Stebelo knew nothing of the plans to redecorate his villa, as Dionis discovered at their first, eventful meeting. Pay Me Tomorrow Ismay had gone to see Keith Otterbury on a matter pertaining to her sister when he made his preposterous offer. The little she had heard of him hadn't been good, so his offer of marriage to save her family from financial disaster had to be regarded with suspicion. But did she really have any choice in the matter? The Darling Pirate Escaping the unwanted attentions of a suitor, Maggie Jefferson left London for a position in Jersey, in one of the island's luxury hotels. The first person she met was Alain Hautger, who enjoyed a vagabond existence in spite of the earnest efforts of others to reform him. But was he really as carefree as he seemed?

Barbara, whose home was the beautiful lonely Hebridean Island of Kylsaig, wanted to get away from it, her sister Judith would have given anything to be able to stay there. Here is the story of how each of them solved her problem happily.

Working in Corsica, Lexa was warned by Suzanne Moriani to keep away from "her" property, Bryden Frankland. But Bryden was so patently uninterested in her that Lexa wondered ruefully why Suzanne had ever bothered to see her as a possible rival...

Suddenly the chance had come to Grentha to work at Montori for a few months helping to sort and collate the vast accumulation of letters, essays and papers of a world-famous American art collector and historian. And it was here that she met Mervyn - and Craig, who at Vietri had given her the china donkey, To give a china donkey to a girl was locally taken to mean that the man who gave it was giving her his love. But wasn't it possible that Craig had also given china donkeys to all those other girls whose names he claimed to have tucked away in his little black book - just to remind them not to make fools of themselves over him.

Caran decided she was going to enjoy her summer job in Spain, especially once she had met the romantic, and very attentive, Don Ramior Mendosa. But she could well have done without that maddening Englishman, Brooke Eldridge! Mills & Boon Caran felt sure she was going to enjoy her new job at Albarosa, in the lovely Spanish province of Andalucia, looking after a number of holiday villas in a beautiful, away-from-it-all resort. She felt even more optimistic when she met the romantic Don Ramiro Mendosa, who was so attentive. However, Caran thought crossly, she could well have done without that maddening Englishman Brooke Eldridge. With his fits of temper, his kindness to the local Spanish people, his blow-hot-blow-cold behaviour, he was quite impossible, and Caran really didn't know why she wasted a moment's thought on him. Then the whole problem looked like being decided for her anyway, when her glamorous friend Julie descended on her for a long holiday and proceeded to annex every man in sight - Brooke Eldridge included!

Catherine had gone to Drumlochan, on the lovely peaceful west coast of Scotland, to try and recapture the memory of an old love. But she found that, against her will, she becoming involved with the present-day problems of the local people, and especially with the dour doctor, Gavin McAndrew.

Working on a film in Yugoslavia, Sarah falls in love with aloof engineer Adam Thorne. The leading lady and male star of the film seem determined for a variety of reasons in preventing this romance from developing.

Felicity's young brother Trevor had always come first with her - and never more so than now, when he had developed an eye disease which might well make him blind within a very short time. So she was thrilled when she got the chance of a job at the clinic on the tiny island of Isola Rossa in the Adriatic where Burne Mallory was the eye specialist - and she and Trevor set off with new hope in their hearts. But Burne very soon became more than her brother's doctor to her, in spite of the warnings of his nurse, Isobel (who was possibly not without self-interest in the matter). Felicity knew in her heart that Isobel was right, that she must be far from being the first girl in Burne's life and must not take his attentions seriously. All the same .. .

An intriguing romance set against the sunshine, colour and beauty of Capri. It was her father's health that brought Althea to live on the island of Capri, where she was quite happy making friends with their Italian neighbours. Then she met and fell in love with Kent Sanderby, but Carla, an attractive young Italian girl, seemed to be making more headway there than Althea.

When Rachel’s sister Celia invited her out to France to spend a long holiday with her and her husband in their chateau in Auvergne, Rachel was more than pleased to accept. It would of course be pleasant to see her sister again, and explore this fascinating and little-known mountainous region of France. But the ‘holiday’, Rachel soon found, turned into a battle of wits, with herself and Celia on one side, and Celia’s in-laws, the aristocratic Bertelle family, on the other. Haughty old Madame Bertelle considered Rachel ‘not quite good enough’; Francine saw her as a possible rival; Valentin simply made a nuisance of himself. But the one who was to cause Rachel the most heart-searching was their enigmatically neighbour, Lucien de Frontenac!

The Young Amanda... Struggling to adapt to her new life, Amanda wished she'd never inherited her grandfather's fortune. Now she'd never know for certain whether people were attracted to her for her own worth or for her money. She almost longed to be back in the safety of the orphanage! But then she wouldn't have met Grant. The Truant Bride... Matilda Mole, young and emotionally confused, was in love with an impossible dream. It took her a long time to wake up to her true feelings and realize that the security and cherishing she'd lacked all her life were to be found in Justin's love. Beggars May Sing... It was no use, Gina thought, she shouldn't have returned to Ireland. For the first time she began to question her motives for refusing to marry Mark. Their love was not in doubt; only her pride stood between them. Could she possibly overcome it and go back to him?

Holiday romances seldom last, Susan thought. Yet, she could hope...

Lucie Durant went to the Canary Islands on a working holiday, looking for new ideas for the jewellery she designed. Her call on the attractive Joel Barron was of a purely business nature at first, but it developed unexpectedly on a more personal level when he offered her a job looking after his young nephew and niece. But there was not only Joel in the household; there was also the disturbing, mocking Hallam Dayne, who seemed first to resent Lucie and then to be attracted to her. But with the glamorous Spanish girl Rosanna del Rey making it very clear that she looked on Lucie as an interloper, wasn't Lucie wasting her time in expecting either Joel or Hallam to take her seriously?

It was a far cry from taking up the dress-designing career she had planned to going back to Scotland to help out when her father's hotel ran into difficulties--but Fenella would not have hesitated had she known what the outcome was to be!