THE NURSE’S SECRET SON
AMY ANDREWS
ISBN:0-373-06546-9
March 2006
Harlequin Medical Romance
Harlequin Enterprises, Ltd.
225 Duncan Mills Rd., Don Mills, Ontario, Canada M3B 3K9
Paperback
$4.25
187 Pages
Medical Romance
Rating: 3 cups

Sophie is a devoted nurse and mother to a young son. Some of her fondest memories are growing up with brothers Michael and Daniel Monday. Unfortunately, the man she loves was not the one she married. Oh, she loved Michael in many ways, but not in the way that counted. Now he is dead and she is left raising her child without a father. Fate intervenes when Daniel’s beloved grandfather has a stroke, and Sophie has to summon him back home.

Daniel Monday is reluctant to return. Besides trying to bear the enormous guilt of causing his brother to become a paraplegic, he does not want to have to face Sophie and have all those old memories dredged up. There is no chance for this handsome paramedic. He is thrown right into a medical emergency, teamed with Sophie, on the very day he arrives back in town. He has no idea about her son, but is about to find out.

Sophie and Daniel get a reality check in The Nurse’s Secret Son. Daniel has been toting around guilt because he was driving at the time of the accident in which his brother was injured. Later, those same injuries contribute to Michael’s death. Sophie cannot deny that she still loves Daniel—even if it was their steamy sexual encounter the evening of Michael’s funeral that led to Daniel leaving for New York and a new life. Michael was a kind and caring man, but Sophie married him out of pity and desperation when Daniel rejected her.

The Nurse’s Secret Son by Amy Andrews was entertaining, but the title sort of gave away the whole plot. I enjoyed the story for the most part, but I found the constant head hopping to be distracting. One minute I was reading from one character’s point of view, and the next I had jumped into an entirely different person’s head. There was one scene in which the heroine is called by a patient’s name and that confused my feeble brain. Ms. Andrews has some very vivid and touching medical scenes in the book, certainly knows the correct terminology, and has the ability to make the reader visualize what is going on. A few great sex scenes counteracted the writing problems and made the time I spent reading very worthwhile.

Brett Scott
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