NOT THROUGH LOVING YOU
Love Heals All #3
by
Patricia Preston
Releasing June 20th, 2017
Lyrical Shine
Releasing June 20th, 2017
Lyrical Shine
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Review Posted on May 5th, 2017
In Not Through Loving You (Love Heals All #3) by Patricia Preston, Lia Montgomery knew she had a half-sister, but never got to know her like a sister should. But when she learns about Candace's death and that her sister had recently delivered a baby, Lia is determined to do what's right by her nephew. However, she never imagined she'd fall for the man that's looking to adopt her sister's baby, and if she's not careful, her falling for pediatrician Aaron Kendall could lose her everything she's worked so hard for. Yet, when love is on the line, how can she possibly turn her back on Aaron? Click to read the rest of the review
In the Southern town of Lafayette
Falls, a new life brings together a woman with everything to lose and
a doctor with everything to prove.
When a sickly infant is surrendered at
the Lafayette Falls Medical Center, and orphaned soon after,
pediatrician Aaron Kendall arranges to adopt him. After a painful
divorce, the busy baby doc is about to realize his own dream of
becoming a father when the baby’s beautiful estranged aunt turns
up. She doesn't exactly approve of the Kendall bachelor pad, complete
with Aaron's cranky dad and wacky brother, forcing Aaron to form a
risky alliance with her.
Country singer-songwriter Lia
Montgomery barely knew her half-sister, but she's determined her tiny
nephew goes to a good home. If only she fit the bill herself, but her
stressful life on the road is no place for a baby. Yet despite her
misgivings, as she gets to know Aaron, she realizes the smart and
sexy doctor is everything a child could want in a dad—and more
unsettling, everything she's ever hoped for in a man. After all she's
put him through, is it too late to form a family—and maybe put a
song in the good doctor's heart?
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LOVE IN THE NURSERY
He took a moment to admire her. She wore the pretty white dress
she’d worn that night when they’d met in the hotel restaurant and he
had been determined to send her packing. A lot had changed since
then. Lucky me, he mused as he took the music box out of her hands.
He placed it on the chest of drawers and restarted the song.
As "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" started to play again, he
reached out his hand to her. "May I have this dance?"
For a moment, it appeared her breath halted before she took his
hand. "Yes. Yes," she repeated as if she had agreed to more than just
a dance.
They settled against one another as they waltzed around the nursery
in small steps, a couple forward and backward since there was little
open space. "We need a bigger room," he said as they bumped
into the armoire.
"This is fine," she whispered. She began to softly sing the lyrics
to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
He smiled. He loved for her to sing to him, and as she sang about
dreams coming true, he glanced at the picture of himself holding
John Aaron. The baby was a dream come true, and so was the woman
in his arms. He sensed a shift in her as she slid her hand from his and
roped both of her arms around his neck as they swayed to the music.
"We should call it a night," he murmured.
He shut off the light in the nursery as they headed across the hall
to their bedroom . . .
Patricia Preston is a Mississippi author who writes witty mainstream historical and contemporary romance as well as humorous short stories. She won the William Faulkner Award for Short Fiction, the Lone Star Writing Competition for Historical Romance, and Harlequin’s World’s Best Romances Short Story Competition. Besides working as a medical office manager, she has also worked as a librarian. She loves the atmosphere of small towns but would love to live in New Orleans or Nashville, her favorite cities. Her other interests include history, cooking, photography, and getting together with friends and family. She is happiest when she is in her writing cave with a glass of sweet iced tea and ideas flowing. Readers can visit her website at patricia-preston.com, fine her on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter.
What’s Cole Younger Got To Do With It?
In NOT THROUGH LOVING YOU, the heroine, Lia Montgomery, a country music singer/ songwriter, is a fangirl of the Old West and outlaws, especially Cole Younger. This began when she was working on music for a documentary of the Old West and she wrote a song "The Outlaw in My Arms" about Cole. Being a true fangirl, she knows everything about his life.
This brings some humor to the book as the hero, pediatrician Aaron Kendall thinks the Cole/Wild West thing is absurd. Plus it reinforces his belief that he has nothing in common with Lia. The next thing he knows she’s adding touches of the Old West to his house, buys the baby (her nephew whom he is adopting) cowboy boots and suggest they name the baby, Cole. That will be over Aaron’s dead body…
I have to admit I did pass my favoritism of Cole Younger onto my character. A long time ago, I did some in-depth research of the James-Younger gang for a book I was writing. Jesse and Frank James were the most famous, but aside from being outlaws, they were serious, devout sons of a Baptist preacher. One side note, quiet Frank was an avid reader. He was never without a book in his saddlebag and he often quoted Shakespeare.
To me, Cole seemed to be the kind of outlaw a girl would like to meet. Cole came from a large affluent family and he was considered the "life of the party." He loved to have fun. A flirtatious ladies man, he was a favorite with women. He was outgoing and charming, but he never married. It was rumored he fathered a daughter by the female outlaw, Belle Starr.
After the Northfield bank robbery, Cole spent a couple of decades in prison where he became a medical attendant, working in the prison infirmary, taking care of the sick. (Lia points that out to Aaron since he’s a doctor.) He was a model prisoner who was paroled. His brothers were all dead. John was killed by a Pinkerton agent, Bob died in prison, and broken-hearted Jim committed suicide after his release. Jesse James had been killed and Frank, acquitted of all crimes, was living on the James farm with his family. Cole and Frank reunited and put together the James-Younger Wild West show. Later, Cole, who liked show business, became something of a "motivational" speaker. He traveled the country, presenting lectures on "What My Life Has Taught Me." He also wrote his autobiography entitled Cole Younger, Himself. Cole died peacefully at home in March 1916. He was seventy-two and still carried 11 bullets in his body from his outlaw days.
You’ll have to read the book to see how Aaron comes to terms with all things Western.
I love the cover of this book. Can't wait to read it.
ReplyDeleteHi! Thanks for hosting me and for taking the time to do a review of the book!
ReplyDeleteKaren: Thank you. Glad you like the cover and I hope if you read the book, you'll enjoy it. You can read more about it and read the first chapter at www.lovehealsallseries.blogspot.com
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