To Marry a Stranger - Renee Roszel (Summary)

MILLS & BOON - ENCHANTED

The Enchanted Brides - trilogy - Part 1

The trilogy is about the three sisters.... Elissa, Lucy and Helen Crosby. Their Crosby Inn is in the neighbourhood of the D'Amour mansion, whose absentee owners are roumoured to be living in Europe.There is a charming myth surrounding this mansion and it plays an important part in the lives of the Crosby sisters.

Legend says that the mansion is enchanted and that an unmarried woman who sleeps within it's walls on her birthday, when there is a full moon, would marry the first man she sees in the morning.

Helen, the youngest of the Crosby sisters and the most romantic, sleeps in the D'amour mansion on her twenty-first birthday...and of course there is a full moon...she encounters a scarred, limping, one-eyed stranger and runs for her life.

Later she realises that the man she had seen in the mansion was Damien Lord, news reporter extraordiaire, who had injured himself trying to rescue a small child. She takes it upon herself to help the man recuperate and blackmails him into her home with threats of disclosure of his whereabouts.

Helen realises that he was the man she had first seen after fulfilling the conditions of the myth, and despite realising that their differences are insurmountable, falls in love with him. Damien Lord finds himself slowly drawn into the warmth and loving comfort of the Crosby inn and the three sisters.

She practices tough love and shames Damien back into his own world when she finds out that he did not have the confidence to face his old society after losing his looks. Her sacrifice pays off and Damien gets readmitted into the media world and is touted America's sexiest Man...

And one fine day in April, imprisoned by her sisters into watching his news telecast, she receives her proposal from Damien on TV and then in person, a few minutes later.

So the Myth worked for Helen...what about Lucy and Elissa??????

About trilogies - (Comment)

I really love trilogies or more than three books on memebers of a family , or just othr characters who appeared in other books...gives one a feeling of recognition, of really being a part of the lives of the fictitious characters....

That's another reason I really love Nora roberts, Renee Roszel, Day Leclaire etc...they are experts at creating this sort of connections...

The best thing about these books is that they are all great individually, but to just have read the whole set is amazing...!!!!

And to demonstrate the fact, I plan to summarise the trilogy of Enchanted Brides by Renee Roszel....

I'll be awaiting your comments after you get a taste of reading a trilogy.......

The Secret - Rhonda Byrne (Comment)

I had seen Oprah Winfrey raving about this book on her show, but at that time, I guess I was not receptive to what was being said. I have yet to see the movie, but I am impressed by the book and all the people who have endorsed it...like Oprah, Jack Canfield, Dr. Joe Vitale...etc

It is not something I can summarise, but the feeling this particular book generates, is of hope, and all things positive. If a person atleast takes a few minutes to think of the Law of attraction that has been mentioned in the book, one would start getting convinced that things are not so totally beyond one's control as one thinks.


The book need not necessarily alter a person's life from the get go, but the greatest thing is , it may influence some positive thoughts and generate hope for a better tomorrow....And I agree that there is nothing greater than the power of love.

What more can I say about the Secret....??

INDRAJAL COMICS (Comment)

I just had to mention this great blog I had just discovered........to any fans of Indrajal Comics.....

http://indrajal-comics.blogspot.com

I am sure a lot of kids started getting interested in reading because of Indrajal comics...most of
my weekends in my school days were spent reading the adventures of Phantom, Mandrake, Bahadur...........and to this day, I just grab one if I can lay my hands on one....!!!

Montana's Feisty Cowgirl - Carolyn Zane (Summary)

Mills & Boon - Modern romance

Sydney MacKenzie applies for the post of ranch hand at the Brubaker estate, but gets turned down. Determined to `show' the Brubakers for what she considered as sexual discrimination, she cuts off her lustrous hair, dresses like a boy, and tries again.........this time, with a positive result.

Montana Brubaker had been impressed by Sydney, and he soon see through the disguise of the new ranch hand Sid Mac, who had been hired in his absence by his uncle Big Daddy Brubaker. He decides to keep an eye her and being the ranch forman,and sharing the same bunk house, he had ample opportunity to do so....

Instead of being proved right that Sydney was upto no good, Montana discovers that she tricks them so as to save her heritage, and slowly falls in love with the girl. Sydney too falls in love with Montana. Her disguise is revealed to the other ranch hands when there is an accident due to a fire...and Montana discovers that his uncle had known all along that Sid was a girl.

And they get married ......................

It is a nice book for light reading.

Chicken Soup for the Soul - Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen

Westland books

I guess any person who has anything to do with books has to have heard of the Chicken Soup series...

I have read a few of the books...and each has touched me in many ways...hats off to the people who brought about this phenomenon...

I have to mention a few very special articles in this particular book...

The smile
A simple gesture
Puppies for sale
I think I can...

They just never fail to touch me and lift my spirits...

The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss

Illustrated Classics

This book does remind you a lot of Robinson Crusoe. Unlike Crusoe, a whole family of Robinsons are shipwrecked. Dad, mom Elizabeth, fifteen year old Fritz, Thirteen year old Jack, eleven year old Ernest and the youngest boy Francis, who is six.

They get stranded on an island and the father and sons immediately starts killing all the animals in sight, mother plants a vegetable garden , they build a tree house(all necessary tools and implements were left for them on the ship, which they later salvage).

In winter they bore into a cave and discover a salt mine. they thrive on an abundance of ostriches, flamingoes, giant turtles, fish, oysters,coconuts, cocoa,and hav a cow for milk, dogs to help them hunt, a donkey to carry load etc etc..they also discover cotton for making clothes...all of them automatically seem to know what to do with all the resources at hand...

Then they discover a bed of oysters with precious pearls, then the oldest, Fritz discovers a shipwrecked maiden Jenny ..few days later, another ship sails near their land. Fritz and Jack decide to return to europe with all their riches and Jenny also sails with then to go to her father...the rest of the Robinsons bid them goodbye and stay behind.

It has clearly been inspired by Crusoe, but in my opinion, it fails to meet the mark.