Willaful, you scared me about this one but it wasn't bad at all. I think you should have stuck it out and read the middle. The hero rescues this girl on a deserted island, almost dead. He took her to the drs. in Fiji. He didn't really want to be stuck with a perfect stranger which I felt was very realistic. He was in the middle of delivering a yacht to California. It didn't take him long to agree to take her and he was nice to her on the trip and showed he was falling in love with her.

When her memory returns, she reverts to her old accustomed attitude of being a rebellious brat and they argue and she returns to England. I was pretty disgusted with her at this point. Then I realized that the author was making a point. That she was very young (22) and had not really grown up. The amnesia had allowed her to leave behind her habitual attitude, (and it was only habitual rebellion and teen angst), and she was able to be a better truer self without her baggage. After she got back to England she realized that the home truths the hero had told her during their arguement about how she needed to grow up were true and so she was able to let the old attitudes fall away. When they meet again in England she has matured and apologizes for being a brat etc.

There is some condescension on his part when they get back together before he gives in and admits he loves her but that is a pretty basic Harlequin Presents superior alpha hero schtick and was okay here. ( )