"Delightful"

At Mercy Hospital in Dallas, Caroline Malone is the finest surgeon because she always does her best for her patients and expects nothing less from the team. Escaping her beloved work for a needed rest, Caroline rides her steed Star King. However a jackrabbit spooks her horse leading to Caroline injuring her hand and unable to perform cardiac surgery. A depressed Caroline leaves Dallas for the West Texas Davis Mountain to begin what she hopes is the healing process.

In Davis Mountain, Diego Montalvo battles with demons from his military medic days by providing homeopathic treatments to those in need. When Diego and Caroline meet, the clash is between modern medical science and local healing arts, but underneath is a growing love for one another. Diego wonders how he will survive the loss of Caroline when he heals her hand and she returns to Dallas. Caroline wonders how her heart will recover once he heals her hand and she returns to Dallas.

THE HEALER is an engaging thought provoking romance that enables the audience to see the best and somewhat the worst of two approaches to healing. The ploy succeeds because the audience believes that Caroline and Diego have no doubts that their way is the best way even while they debate the merits of both methods. Thus the growing love between them becomes a joy and an albatross, but sheer pleasure for the audience. Readers will seek the first novel in "Deep in the Heart" series, WHAT THE HEART WANTS (starring Caroline's sister Ivy) and anxiously wait missing sibling Chloe's story.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted December 25, 2002

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Summary

Diego Montalvo's Latino folk healing tradition is the antithesis of everything injured cardiac surgeon Caroline Malone believes, but he's the most compelling man she's ever met. Diego wants to heal both her body and her heart, but helping her will mean losing her because Caroline can't stay in his world...and Diego can't leave.

Second book in the "Deep in the Heart" series which began with Jean's July release, What the Heart Wants.