[6] In 1973, Pargeter had her first major break as a writer when her husband urged her to enter a writing competition advertised in the newspaper by a Scottish publishing firm.

[3] The experience gave her the confidence to write her first 66,000-word novel, originally titled Music in the Wind, and submit it to Mills & Boon, who accepted it.

[4] In an analysis of the author's works, Arlene Moore argued that Pargeter had developed a distinctive style over the course of her career, "drawing on modern 'literary' techniques of writing".

[9] She highlighted Pargeter's use of "inner turmoil as a constant counter-point as the heroine reacts to events in the novel", with plots that were "generally complicated as are her characters" as she "maintains near melodramatic levels of stress" throughout.

[9] In Boomerang Bride (1979), the male character Wade deeply resents his grandfather who desperately wants an heir to continue running their station in the outback.

To spite him, Wade marries Vicki, a temporary home helper whom he considers "very ineligible", as a mutually agreed business arrangement.

[10] In an analysis of Western "desert romances" and their exotification of sheiks, Evelyn Bach examines Pargeter's The Jewelled Caftan (1978).