Oregon Mountain Search and Rescue climber Dr. Cullen Grey
has spent a rewarding night bringing an injured person to
safety. Then he learns that his divorcing wife Sarah was
injured in a volcanic blast near Seattle. A volcanologist,
she met him during a rock-climbers' festival and they
married too soon, then split up when work and study kept
them apart. But Sarah still has him listed as next of kin,
and comes around to find Cullen at her bedside - whether
she wants him or not.
Sarah takes time to recover and the doctors refuse to
discharge her to live alone. She want to get on with
analysing test data, but she can't walk unaided or dress
herself. Cullen offers her a room in his home and
grudgingly she accepts. She doesn't believe she can rely
on him, and hates losing her independence. Cullen lives in
small Hood Hamlet, near Mount Hood, and nobody there knew
he was married. Life is about to alter radically for both
of them.
WINNING BACK HIS WIFE is not the expectation Cullen has of
these weeks, but as the pair use their enforced
companionship to get to know each other all over again,
suddenly nothing seems more important to him. Sarah's
vulnerable, on pain medication and determined to be her own
woman. But she can't help regretting their lost love.
I fond the constant coyness of Sarah asking her husband to
turn his back so she could slip off her bra rather slow,
and while they both regretted the breakup they were unable
to discuss it - odd for intelligent, active people. The
focus is on Sarah's serious injuries and recovery, and the
two don't discuss current affairs, books or hobbies, as
most adults would. They do however go to a chocolate
sampling evening, good fun for them, and Sarah helps kids
with a lava flow school project, fun for everyone. These
were far from stereotyped characters, who separated because
they were too alike, rather than too different. If they'd
married home-makers instead they'd have been well cared for
and stayed married... but bored! This story by Melissa
McClone asks the excellent question of how intelligent,
driven women are supposed to be happy in a marriage and how
far an intelligent man should adapt his life to care for an
extraordinary woman.
When Sarah Purcell ends up in hospital, she's shocked to
find the dreamy doc by her bedside is her soon-to-be ex-
husband, Cullen Grey!
Sarah's reluctantly released into Cullen's care, but he's
as emotionally distant as ever, and her old insecurities
bubble over. Surely the new life he's forged for himself in
Hood Hamlet proves he can live without her?
Their second chance?
Caring for his wife 24/7, this time Cullen won't bury his
feelings. As the tremors of their old attraction erupt, he
has one thing on his mind: it's time to bring his wife back
by his side—where she belongs
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