Blurb:
Dr.
Alex Campbell has an agenda—finish his contract to provide medical services in
Maine, pay off his medical school debt, and head back to his real life in San
Diego. But when he meets Julia, all his carefully laid plans are put in
jeopardy.
Julia
Stewart, Lobster Cove’s high school principal, swears she’ll never let another
man drag her away from the home she loves. Her aging parents need her, and the
Cove is where she wants to raise her daughter. When her mother’s illness brings
her and the big city doctor closer together, panic sets in. Her marriage taught
her men don’t stay.
Can
she put aside the heartaches of the past and trust Alex enough to accept the
love he’s offering? Or will her fear of abandonment mean she’ll send him away
forever?
Review by Rochelle Weber:
I
received an advanced copy of One More Second Chance
in return for an honest review.
When
Julia Stewart’s daughter, Ava, falls down her parents’ basement stairs, and her
father refuses to meet her at the ER, she wonders what’s wrong. Things seem
even stranger when her mother is too distraught to face her. Then, Alex
Campbell, the hot, new doctor on duty in the ER suggests Ava may be the victim
of child abuse. Julia’s somewhat mollified when she gets home with Ava and
calms down. As an educator, she’s called Child Services a few times herself and
she has to admit, in Dr, Campbell’s shoes, she may have made the same decision.
Lobster
Cove is a small town, and it’s impossible to avoid Dr. Campbell—especially
since he lives next door to her parents and finds her mother on his porch in
her nightgown at three a.m. looking for her friend who lived there several
years ago. Does her mother have Alzheimer’s Disease? Convincing her father to
take her mother to a neurologist for the definitive tests is almost as
difficult as convincing the conservatives on the School Board to allow her to
set up a day care facility so teenage mothers can continue their education. Julia finds herself fighting battles on
several fronts—with Alex Campbell by her side in all of them. And worse, Ava loves him. But Dr. Alex is from San Diego, and he’s made
it clear he wants to head back to his nice, warm So Cal climate as soon as his
contract is up. Men leave. Her husband left and Dr. Alex is planning to
leave as well. Julia can’t let herself
or Ava get involved with him.
Alex,
meanwhile struggles with his feelings for Julia and Ava, and his desire to
escape the horrible climate in Lobster Cove, even while warming to the town and
its residents. He finds himself practicing family medicine as well as emergency
medicine and finds he enjoys treating the whole person—diagnosing a problem,
prescribing treatment and watching the patient improve, or seeing the community
come together to support a family when it’s clear the patient won’t improve.
That’s something he never encountered in the ER in San Diego, and he finds
himself liking it.
I
really enjoyed this contemporary romance.
It wasn’t as funny as the other book I read by Ms. Richards. It addressed much more serious issues—Alzheimers
Disease and how it affects both the victim and her family, a patient with
mysteriously recurring urinary tract infections, the importance of catching
breast cancer early, teenage pregnancy, the importance of sex education in
school, the damage a lazy teacher can cause to his students, and the toll
exhaustion can take on an ER doctor. The characters were real,
three-dimensional people who spoke naturally.
No stilted dialog! Yea! Ava actually sounded like a five year-old. Despite
the serious issues, the book was warm, witty, and entertaining. I highly recommend One More
Second Chance.
Length:
255 Pages
Prices:
Print: $TBA
Digital: $5.99
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