After saying good-bye to her nursing students and putting
her things in storage, Abby Cahill was really looking
forward to her summer break in the beautiful scenery in
Wisconsin before taking up a new position in California.
After being a prof for so long, she planned on a quiet
working break that would allow her to refresh her hospital
knowledge while helping out her old friend, Grace Fisher-
Edwards, who had recently married and retired and was going
off on a long awaited honeymoon.
Despite all her wonderful plans and organization, things
began to go quickly awry -- from the unbelievable
tourist traffic, a too quick orientation to the job and
losing her accommodation twice in a week. Resolving to
carry on for her friend despite all the initial
difficulties, Abby throws herself into handling the patient
care and hospital issues confronting the woefully
underfunded facility.
Meanwhile, wildlife biologist Ethan Mathews had just gotten
his son, Keifer, for three months over the summer when he
had a nasty run-in with a grain auger. Meeting in the
hospital, Ethan is totally underwhelmed by the icy blonde
Abby, but has no choice to leave his son with her as they
had to air transport him to a larger hospital in Green Bay.
Caught by her heart to Keifer's needs and the lack of
accommodations in the tourist filled town, Abby ends up
taking temporary lodgings at Ethan's remote, but ruggedly
beautiful place in the woods out of town, along with her
newly saved dog, Belle. Her plans are made for the future,
but will she be able to keep all that she wants on track?
A master romance storyteller, Roxanne Rustand gives a very
human face to all her characters and the dilemmas and
situations they face. The dialogue between the main
characters sparkle with wit and there are enough
undercurrents and strange things whirling around both the
hospital and the ranch to make you just want to keep on
reading. A solid gold suspense romance! Enjoy!
All Abby Cahill wanted was a quiet summer job in the
beautiful Wisconsin woods. But the hospital where she's
filling in turns out to be overcrowded, understaffed and
decidedly stretched for cash. And as if she didn't have
enough on her hands, the only vacancy in town for "single
woman with mutt" is at the farmhouse of wildlife biologist
Ethan Matthews, whose son is with him for the season,
along with several newborn puppies.
Ethan is a handsome, solitary man who seems to need Abby
as much as she needs… Problem is, she'll never find out
what she needs. At the end of August she's got to go back
to her job in the city teaching nursing.
And leave this temporary arrangement, which is starting to
feel too darn comfortable. For all three of them.
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