Stars Through the Mist

By Betty Neels

Book Overview

Stars through the Mist by Betty Neels released on Apr 12, 2005 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373811004
• ISBN13: 9780373811007
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Harlequin Presents
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Another Lovable Betty Neels ...

Book Description: When distinguished surgeon Gerard van Doorninck asked Staff Nurse Deborah Culpepper to marry him, his reasons were practical, not romantic. As she had been secretly in love with Gerard for some time, Deborah accepted his terms and hoped for the best. It might all have worked out very happily, had Gerard's friend Claude van Trapp not done his best to try and spoil things! Gerard is an Orthpaedic Surgeion/Consultant and Deborah, his Theatre Sister, has secretly been in love with him for a long time. She knows he appreciates her nursing skills but doesn't see her as a woman; she is suprised and thrilled when he asks her to marry him. He tells her of course that it is a marriage of convenience. Included are the scenic, architectural, and food descriptions as any Neels reader may expect. ... This Good-Looking Rich Dutch Doctor and Good-Looking British Nurse is a lovable and slightly different Betty Neels - this time the spoiler is a male. Coenraad & Adelaide van Essen from "Sister Peters in Amsterdam" and Dominic & Abigail van Wijkelen from "Saturday's Child" appear in this story; they are friends of Gerard.

Comfort food for a reader's soul.

Reading Betty Neels is like listening to George Strait, if you like one song chances are you are going to like all the others, if not, move on. Ms. Neels has essentially written the same story 134 times and if it pleased you once it will satisfy over and over. In this book Deborah, surgical nurse, has secretly been in love with the Dutch doctor who has been working at her hospital for two years. He seems aloof and oblivious to her and others. As the story opens he pops in and asks her to marry him as he is leaving for Holland and wants a companion and hostess to manage his home life and obligations while he continutes his practice. Love is not mentioned and Deborah, who had been on the point of fleeing, gives in and accepts. The plot progresses through fancy dinners and expensive fashions until love triumphs in the end. Though it sounds as if I am mocking, believe me it is just a gentle nudge as I have read most all of these books more than once already in my life and have a stack at hand to fall back on when real reading gets tough. Either this is a comfort zone for you or they will annoy you. But if you choose to embrace them, welcome to my world!

Stars Through The Mist

Gerard van Doorninck asked Deborah to marry him, explaining he had found her a sensible reliable girl--one who would make an ideal hostess for his home. Love was not mentioned. But loving him, Deborah found his offer better than losing him.