"Love and Commitment"

Andie Griffith heads the Intensive Care Unit of the local hospital, an intelligent nurse who gives everything to her patients. She lives out in the country in a peaceful setting with her best friend, her Great Dane dog, Jerome. She has been looking forward to buying the adjoining property, hoping the price will go down so is dismayed when it is sold to retired homicide detective, Max Daniels.

Max is a six foot six hunk. He is bowled over when he meets Andie and disappointed when she shows no interest in him. He isn't used to having a woman say no but he is one determined fellow and although Andie doesn't seem to be interested, that is just her smoke screen. Actually, she is enthralled with her handsome neighbor but determined to keep him at a distance. The more Max gets to know Andie, the more his interest escalates to fascination and then to love.

Lurking in the background is stalker Everett Pickett who is waiting for his uncle to die; he is angry with the nurses in ICU that insist on keeping him alive.

TRESPASS OF THE HEART is basically a romance with just a little suspense thrown into the mix. Both Max and Andie are strong characters who gradually fall in love and have a very steamy affair. Secrets from Andie's past won't allow her to have a more serious relationship but Max is patient, loving, very sexy and determined to have Andie for his own and he works to build her trust in him. The secondary characters, their friends from the hospital and the police department, all help move the story along. The stalker plays a small role; love and commitment play a larger role making TRESPASS OF THE HEART by Samantha Gail an imminently satisfactory read.

Reviewed by Marilyn Heyman
Posted July 3, 2003