Under The Eagle's Gaze

By Estella Valencay

Angelica father tells her it will be a summer holiday but she knows it is a prison sentence under the watchful gaze of her father's best friend and she will be trapped in a remote hunting lodge in Scotland and left to reflect on her bad behaviour.

Angelica has a rebellious nature and wild streak that has pushed her parents' patience to breaking point. After their divorce, her behavior has gone from bad to worse and after a brush with the police in Paris, her father packs her off to spend the summer with Colm, an old friend of his who has a remote hunting lodge in the far north of Scotland. At least being there, in the middle of nowhere, her father hopes that she might keep out of trouble.

Colm has recollections of Angelica from when he last saw her several years ago, but he is in no way prepared for who lands on his doorstep. The petulant teenager with a penchant for provocative clothing and causing havoc has turned into a beautiful but wildly destructive twenty-one-year-old woman, who refuses to work and who uses the allowance from her wealthy father to fuel her decadent lifestyle.

Angelica is consumed with hitting back at her parents for perceived injustices and their increasing disinterestedness in her and when she meets Colm, her mind turns to seducing Colm so that she can then reveal what has happened to her father and hurt him. Only there are problems with her plan. Firstly Colm has a girlfriend and she sees through Angelica in a flash and Angelica's second problem is Colm: the longer she spends with him, the more intrigued by him and the more attracted to him, she becomes, and even if he is nearly twice her age, she wonders whether he might feel something for her and whether their turbulent relationship could be turned into something meaningful.

Trapped by the remote hunting lodge into a forced proximity relationship with Colm, Angelica wonders whether their relationship of benevolent jailer and prisoner be turned into something meaningful.

Under the Eagle's Gaze is a full length novel about an age-gap romance between an emotionally scarred thirty-nine-year-old man and a rebellious and feisty twenty-one-year-old woman.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GVDNGN52
• ISBN13: 9798254148647
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"