Jane Bonander "reaches out to readers' hearts" (Romantic Times) with wonderful tales that perfectly blend wild desire, tender emotion, and vivid sensuality. Now she whisks us to the California frontier, where an old passion becomes a new problem. When Lexy Tate dreamed of practicing medicine, she hadn't imagined setting up her practice in an abandoned brothel, or delivering a calf in a ramshackle barn. But as one of the first woman doctors in America, Lexy couldn't afford to be fussy, especially with a young daughter to ...
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Jane Bonander "reaches out to readers' hearts" (Romantic Times) with wonderful tales that perfectly blend wild desire, tender emotion, and vivid sensuality. Now she whisks us to the California frontier, where an old passion becomes a new problem. When Lexy Tate dreamed of practicing medicine, she hadn't imagined setting up her practice in an abandoned brothel, or delivering a calf in a ramshackle barn. But as one of the first woman doctors in America, Lexy couldn't afford to be fussy, especially with a young daughter to consider. Little Krista needed the warmth of the California sun for her health, and Lexy was determined to make a home for the two of them on the California frontier. Lexy was prepared for hardship and difficult working conditions but she wasn't ready to meet Jake Westfield, again. Four years earlier, Jake had shown how little he cared for Lexy when he left her without giving her a chance to tell him she was bearing his child. Now, faced with the man she'd loved since she was a young girl, Lexy knew that this time she could not afford to give in to the passion that still bound them. This time, she had to make the right decision, not just for herself, but for her precious daughter....
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This book makes a point to showing how underwhelmed male doctors and the population at large were with the first females who became doctors. Because animals were the source of most farmers/ranchers cash income, they tended to be just as worried about their livestock as their families. Male and female doctors were called upon to serve as veterinarians, as well as healers of humans.
The story opens with Jake Westfield. He is devastated by the death of a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. Although he is in love with the beautiful and shallow Megan Tate, he goes to her sister (and fellow medical student), Lexy Tate. Jake seeks solace with Lexy; because she has been in love with Jake for years, Lexy takes him to her bed. Suddenly, Jake calls Lexy by her sister's name and Lexy is devastated. She demands that Jake leave immediately and forever.
Now doubly upset, Jake makes the rash decision to leave medical school and begins to wander. Megan marries Jake's best friend Max; after Max's graduation, he and Megan go to California, as physician attached to a fort. A year after Lexy's graduation, Max begs Lexy to come take care of Megan. She is going to have a baby and he is often called away for weeks at a time. Lexy agrees.
When Lexy arrives, she finds that Max is away but Jake Westfield is there, taking care of Megan - as though they are an old married couple. Her second shock is to find that Jake finished medical school in California and has a practice near Max and Megan.
Lexy comes West to start a new life as a physician. It is amusing to see her grappling with the concept of accepting hens, a cow and a piglet in payment for her services.
Both Jake and Lexy carry burdens from their pasts. This is a well-told tale about two strong people who face complex problems (on their own) but who decide to let the other help them to cope ... and then thrive.