157:(1979), the heroine Sandra is forced to marry her cousin's fiancée who has been blinded in a skiing accident, after being coerced by her cousin into deceiving him. Her new husband, a well-known writer, forces her to return to Greece with him, and treats her vindictively as he takes out his anger and frustrations on her. Despite the constant conflict, she grows to love him.
176:(1976). Modleski identifies common tropes within Harlequin romances that are evident in Pargeter's work, including the "more or less brutal" hero whose brutality must be explained by the novel, as well as the heroine's latent "anxiety about rape and longings for power and revenge", underlying an apparent "desire to be taken by force".
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in the "outback". To spite him, Wade marries Vicki, a temporary home helper whom he considers "very ineligible", as a mutually agreed business arrangement. Although he is desperate not to have children, they succumb to passion. Vicki becomes pregnant and is sent away by her angry husband, only to
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Pargeter said she started writing in her early teens, always carrying a notebook in her pocket. She had her first major break as a writer when her husband urged her to enter a writing competition advertised in the newspaper. Although she did not win anything, one of the editors liked her work and
187:(1978). Bach notes that the heroine is suspicious of a sheik she meets who is "clean and literate", which runs counter to her expectations; ironically, when the hero's part-French lineage is finally revealed, this somehow redeems him in the heroine's eyes.
129:, which she submitted to Mills & Boon, who accepted it. Between 1975 and 1986, Pargeter wrote 49 romance novels published by Mills & Boon in the United Kingdom, and by Harlequin in Canada. In 1997, her first full-length novel,
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