Suzanne Ferrell

FROM AMAZON: Emma Lewis has a lot on her plate. The single mother of two precocious twin boys and an aging mother who is having trouble getting through each day, the last thing Emma needs is a man in her life, especially a doctor. When the town’s doctor goes on vacation and his handsome nephew takes over, Emma is shocked to find him standing in her bedroom, accusing her of being a neglectful parent.

Clint Preston came to Westen for the year to fill in as the town doc while his uncle took a long-needed vacation. Clint also needed a sense of peace and calm to try to find his passion for medicine burned out by long shifts in an urban hospital’s ER. Angered to find two boys in his clinic with broken wrists and no accompanying parent, he is determined to confront their mother. The feisty redhead he meets quickly dispels his belief that she’s a neglectful mother, but he can see her situation is more critical than she wishes to face and finds himself volunteering to help care for her sons and the remodeling of her home.

As Emma and Clint forge a relationship among the slightly off-beat characters that inhabit Westen a menace from Emma’s past threatens her and her sons. Clint and Emma join forces to prevent the loss of either boy or the love they’ve discovered in each other’s’ arms.… (meer)

Good characters and a fairly intricate plot send the story racing along to a satisfying conclusion. Well worth reading.

The only downside is the Kindle formatting which has way too many physical paragraph breaks in the middle of sentences, and the odd missing paragraph breaks between speeches by different characters. Both are distracting and take you out of the flow of the story. Using OCR to produce a Kindle book from a physical book still requires a proofreader to clean up errors like this. It is a shame to spoil the end result.… (meer)

3.5

It was cute. I adored the twins!! It would’ve been 4 Stars, but the evil deeds of the monster ex were just a bit too over the top and contrived. I mean first he marries her so she can support him through med school and his residency, only to cheat on her and then dump her for his rich mistress loaded with daddy’s money. Okay, I can buy that. He manages to get rid of her and both kids with no alimony or child support by paying an unscrupulous lab tech to falsify the DNA tests for paternity. A stretch. But then, he receives an inheritance contingent on his producing a male heir by roughly a month in the future, so he sues for custody of ONE of the twins, and to ensure he wins he takes out a contract hit on the ex wife and the other twin? Really? I mean, come on! Bit much, doncha think? His character is portrayed as this evil genius at manipulation basically, but then he gets caught because he’s basically an IDIOT! Doesn’t jibe.

The editing was fine. The characters were good. The MMC was dreamy, sweet and romancy perfection. The FMC was alternately strong and weepy...but, likable. The twins were hilarious and lovable. The whole town was packed with great characters actually. If the author hadn’t delved into the ridiculous with the evil ex, I’d’ve given it 4 Stars easy.… (meer)

DESCRIPTION, NOT REVIEW: They once were lovers:
After ten years of keeping his distance to the one woman he's always loved, Fire Chief Deke Reynolds is finally ready to set aside his grief and confess his guilt to Elizabeth "Libby" Wilson about his part in her brother's death. Libby's own guilty secret has kept her from sharing her life with the man who stole her heart as a teen and awakened her body as a young woman.

Danger has forced them together again:
A fire and their odd connection to a new teenager at the local half-way house have this couple finally sharing their secrets with each other. With an arsonist on the loose, threatening the town of Westen and its citizens, have Libby and Deke waited too long to find their love again?… (meer)