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That certain spark

Title:

That certain spark

Author:

Hake, Cathy Marie.

ISBN:

9780764203206

Publication Information:

Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, c2009.

Physical Description:

348 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject Term:

Women physicians -- Fiction.

Courtship -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Texas -- Fiction.

Genre:

Love stories.

Christian fiction.

Summary:

Woman physician Taylor Bestman receives a cold welcome from the citizens of Gooding, Texas, and especially from Karl Van der Vort, the town blacksmith, who becomes her first patient--against his will. Though hesitant to believe in Taylor's doctoring skills, Karl finds himself oddly protective of this surprising and determined woman.

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Gooding, Texas, is about to gain a double blessing--a veterinarian and a doctor. But when siblings Enoch and Taylor Bestman arrive, the discovery that Taylor is a lady doctor has the town up in arms. Especially Karl Van der Vort, the town blacksmith, who becomes the first patient...against his will.

Though hesitant to believe in Taylor's doctoring skills, Karl finds himself oddly protective of this surprising woman who dares to drive about town on her own, wearing the color red, for heaven's sake Taylor, on the other hand, wants only to prove that doctoring is her life's calling, despite the town's opposition. The result? Pride meets attraction head-on, and sparks begin to fly.

Author Notes

Cathy Marie Hake is a licensed nurse who worked for many years in an oncology unit before shifting her focus to perinatal care. The author of over twenty novels, she lives with her husband in Anaheim, California.

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Publisher's Weekly Review

Christian fiction writer Hake, who is also a nurse, offers her fans a mixed blend of fun, witticism and romance and a theme of medicine, with scenarios involving the care and keeping of man and beast. Against a backdrop of male chauvinist prejudice and smalltown small-mindedness, twins Enoch and his sister Taylor Bestman, veterinarian and medical doctor respectively, arrive in Gooding, Tex., with the best of intentions. What they find is a great deal of anti-female sentiment when it's discovered that Taylor, the new medical doctor, is a woman. Determined to prove herself, Taylor takes on whatever the little town can throw at her and slowly wins over most of the people's affections, including that of a stubborn blacksmith who views medicine as an inappropriate profession for a woman. Hake's text is sweet, to be sure; still, the plot resolves all too neatly and swiftly, almost like an unlikely miracle cure. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

Everyone in Gooding, Texas, is delighted that the small town will finally have a new doctor and veterinarian, but when Drs. Enoch and Taylor Bestman arrive, some of the residents quickly change their minds. The town was expecting two brothers, not a brother and sister, and most of the folks in town just don't think a woman can be a physician. Even though one of the first things Taylor does after she sets up her office is save his leg, blacksmith Karl Van der Vort is one of those people. Having spent her entire medical career proving she is just as competent as any man, Taylor isn't afraid of a fight, and she is determined to show everyone in town especially a certain stubborn blacksmith that she isn't going anywhere. Hake deftly dishes out equal measures of love and faith in the latest addition to her warmly emotional and delightfully humorous Gooding series--Charles, John Copyright 2009 Booklist

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