Tag: Dorothy Cork

Vintage Friday: 11 Kisses for A Thousand Miles Away

A THOUSAND MILES AWAY Author – Dorothy Cork First Published – 1978 Genre – Vintage Romance Setting – Quindalup, a hideaway near Ansell in the gorges of northwest Australia. Hero – Larry Sandfort, 35 year old entrepreneurial owner of a mining company and a sheep station called Mullamulla Downs. Heroine – Farrell Fitzgerald, a naïve… Continue reading Vintage Friday: 11 Kisses for A Thousand Miles Away

Vintage Friday: 11 Kisses for A Promise to Keep

A PROMISE TO KEEP Author – Dorothy Cork First Published – 1974 Genre – Romance SubGenre – Medical, as were so many early Harlequins. This is the only medical romance Dorothy Cork wrote, and she did a fabulous job with it. Setting – Australia – the coast of New South Wales Hero – Grenville Garrison,… Continue reading Vintage Friday: 11 Kisses for A Promise to Keep

Vintage Friday: 11 Kisses for Red Diamond

RED DIAMOND Author – Dorothy Cork First Published – 1975 Genre – Romance Setting – Australia – Sydney; Outback on Red Diamond’s ranch Hero – Red Diamond – the hunkiest book hunk in the history of the world Heroine – Martyn Verity – saucy ingénue Antagonists – brother and sister David and Fay Bower Black… Continue reading Vintage Friday: 11 Kisses for Red Diamond

Torchy Tuesday: Skye Bannerman

Vintage romance author Dorothy Cork’s hero Skye Bannerman came before titular hero Red Diamond and Sin Watermount of Breakers on the Beach, both of whom we have already visited. Skye owns an outback sheep station called Jounima, hence the title, The Red Plains of Jounima, and is described by the heroine as “exasperating.” Actually, he… Continue reading Torchy Tuesday: Skye Bannerman

Torchy Tuesday: Sin Watermount

Another gem of a book by vintage Australian romance author, Dorothy Cork, is Breakers on the Beach. Instead of an Outback setting as many of Cork’s books have, including the fabulous Red Diamond, Breakers on the Beach is set– well, on the beach, of course. Yet, Australia is home to numerous waterfront properties, and this… Continue reading Torchy Tuesday: Sin Watermount