BWWM Interracial Romance: In the Hospital, Empathy Leads to Love Tanisha Barkley enjoys her life as a Nurse Practitioner. Zach Fredricson is a new volunteer in the chemotherapy ward she oversees. At first, she distrusts his motives for wanting to volunteer, and she treats him accordingly.
Then a moment of sadness brings them together. They also find out they have a common love for Paris. She helps him learn French, but she repels his advances artfully and compassionately. When she learns the truth about him, she's afraid of the feelings stirring deep inside her. Will they find true love in the end?
This was my first read by this author. At first I started not to read it because it was very short. I figured everything was going to be too rushed and therefore not believable, I was wrong. Because it was short I don't want to give away too much of the story.
The heroine (Tanisha) is a Nurse Practitioner on the Cancer ward of a hospital. She's very caring and protective of her patients, who tend to be young. Along comes a volunteer; the hero (Zach). At Zach and Tanisha's first meeting, Tanisha is very snippy with Zach, because she doesn't quite trust his motives.
Zach is a new volunteer at the hospital. He has his reasons for volunteering and is not forthcoming with that information, and he also has a secret. He is a little rough around the edges, but as time goes by Tanisha and Zach seem to work things out.
As I stated above this is a very short story, but I found myself caught up into the story; even shedding a couple of tears, and wanting to know more about Zach and Tanisha. I wanted to know their backstories. Although we're given a happy ending, I would not consider it a complete HEA. I wish the author would have made this story longer, because Zach and Tanisha's story was a beautiful one.