"A beautiful love story"

Though his practice is in Oklahoma City, Dr. Jason Bridges makes trips to Chiapas, Mexico to provide medical assistance to the isolated locals. This year his nurse Kathy Martinez cannot make the trip due to her own medical needs, but obtains an able replacement, Kendal Collins. Jason warns Kendal that she must not become emotionally attached to any of the natives; she understands his caution and includes her new employer too.

However that proves easier said than done when Kendal meets two-year-old orphan Miguel. She takes full responsibility for the boy and decides to move heaven, earth and two governments so that she can raise him as her son. Jason finds himself failing to heed his own advice when he too falls in love. He wants to be at Kendal's side raising Miguel.

TO SAVE THIS CHILD is an intriguing medical romance with a side dish of flying adventure that is at its best when the plot furbishes insight into the courageous Doctors Without Borders giving medical care to the remote and needy. The story line is fun to follow especially when health care is the center of the plot as it is for the most part. Though the plane incident that sandwiches the adventure seems unnecessary, fans of medical romance will appreciate this warm contemporary tale.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 18, 2004

Summary

Kendal Collins is in Chiapas, Mexico, on a medical mission. When a two-year-old orphan is thrust into her arms, she finds herself falling in love with the boy. Miguel is now her responsibility, and she's going to do whatever it takes to help this child, including giving him a home and a mother—her.

Dr. Jason Bridges warned Kendal about getting emotionally involved with the locals, but he forgot to warn himself about getting involved with her . Jason can't deny the feelings he has for Kendal anymore. Or the child... He wants them to be a family—the three of them.