While Rivers Run by Maurice Walsh (Vintage 1952 Hardcover)

In this cozy Highland tale of fishing and romance we have the poacher Aleac, his fiery redhead niece Margaret, Norray the actress who has bewitched all the young gentlemen but hasn’t been captured herself, and Paddy Joe Long an Irishman whose lively personality brightens the book up. The story starts with a petty fight over Norray, the loser is left on the rocks and Aleac, who has been poaching, brings him home to be nursed by Margaret. But things start off on the wrong foot with Margaret when he wakes up and tells her, “I never did like red hair.” Not the most promising start to a romance?