4.5 stars. I was informed that I might love Clancy Donovan as much as Rob MacKenzie and I was skeptical. I should have known better! Listen to your elders. ;) The long and the short of it is that this was another great story by Laurie Breton that will make you want to sit down and read it until y...
Davy Hunter reminded himself of that fact for the umpteenth time as he met the cool blue eyes that gazed back at him from the rearview mirror of the police cruiser. It wasn’t as though he’d made a lifetime commitment. This was just two months out of his life. Eight weeks. Sixty days. Not so very ...
she said.Luke’s ears turned red. “Yeah,” he said. “Whaddya want?”“I’m leaving for a little bit. Tell your sister when you see her. If you need anything, Auntie Maeve is around somewhere.”His flush deepened. “Ma, I’m fifteen years old. I don’t need a baby-sitter.”He was right. She didn’t wa...
Fifteen minutes later, the house was filled with people and awash in the intoxicating smell of fresh-brewed coffee. Five minutes after that, her dad showed up, carrying three dozen donuts from Dunk's. His clothes were wrinkled and he needed a shave, but he looked rested. While the assembled multi...
Helen Kapowicz was a general practitioner af-filiated with Maine Medical Center in Portland. It was Mel who found her in the phone book, Mel who arranged the appointment, Mel who drove me to Portland because I didn’t trust myself to drive that far. After the words we’d had, I wasn’t sure she woul...
His Aunt Casey, chopping vegetables at the kitchen island, looked up. Mikey raised a hand, and her face lit up. She motioned for him to come in, and he slid the door soundlessly and stepped into the kitchen. It smelled wonderful. Casey’s kitchen always smelled wonderful. His stomach gurgled, remi...
He heard her as soon as he got out of the car. There were two other babies in the house—Ali had recently given birth to twin girls—but his daughter’s cry was unmistakable. “Mum mum mum,” she wailed. “Mum mum mum mum mum.” Rob closed the car door and approached the old farm...