Girl Of Mystery

So let me start this review as I do most of my reviews. I prefer the old, old Harlequin Romance books because to me they have more substance in the plot then just sex every other page, or a manual on how to have sex. But I usually have to trade for alpha males who are old, mean, cruel, cold, hateful or abusive. This story is an exception to that rule. And this is an example as to why I like the old, old Harlequin Romance Books. In this story Elizabeth Christina Seaton (Bellamy) was running away from home. She ended up being struck by a Jag, being driven by Ashley Carlton. Christina pretends she has lost her memory. She refuses to go to hospital, or to see a doctor, so Ashley took her to his place. He locks the doors to the car so that she can't get out, and when she gets to his flat, she finds the only way out of the flat is by using a key. A key she doesn't have. Ashley won't let her go until she tells him who she is and why she is running away. Although Christina is dressed in a one of a kind dress, she has very little money on her and Ashley doesn't want her roaming the streets alone, or excepting rides from strangers. So he and his housekeeper Han make sure Christina can't leave. Ashley slurs his words all through the story but that is never explained, we are told he had been injured, but not what the injury was or if that was why he slurred his words. Ashley falls in love with Christina from the first meeting, because she has been hurt he thinks at first he has killed her, but when she recovers he won't let her go. Christina has fled her step-mother's new husband Martin's unwanted attentions, she had struck him in the head with a telephone, and she thought she had killed him, so she ran, only to end up a captive in Ashley's home. From the back of the book: 'He refused to let her go..."Am I to take you home, Mystery Girl?" Ashley Carlton was completely baffled by the young woman who'd dashed in front of his Jaguar. She refused to tell him where she lived, which left Ashley no choice but to take the disturbing waif who called herself Christina Seaton to his own home at Australia's Surfer's Paradise. He took her under his wing, despite her determined secrecy, and there, quite unexpectedly, she felt an overpowering sense of belonging.'