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The Color of Rock
A young physician, Dr. Abby Wilmore, attempts to escape her past by starting over at the Grand Canyon Clinic. Silently battling her own health issues, Abby struggles with adjusting to the demands of this unique rural location. She encounters everything from squirrel bites to suicides to an office plagued by strong personalities. While tending to unprepared tourists, underserved locals, and her own mental trials, Abby finds herself entangled in an unexpected romance and trapped amidst a danger even more treacherous than the foreboding desert landscape.
Sandra Cavallo Miller’s debut novel transports readers to the beautiful depths of Arizona and weaves an adventurous and heartwarming tale of the courage and strength it takes to overcome personal demons and to find love.
Sandra Cavallo Miller’s debut novel transports readers to the beautiful depths of Arizona and weaves an adventurous and heartwarming tale of the courage and strength it takes to overcome personal demons and to find love.
208 pages, Hardcover
First published May 25, 2017
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Sandra Cavallo Miller
9 books49 followersI am a recently retired family physician in Phoenix who has always been a writer in my secret heart. Very little fiction has been written about women physicians, and I find it a great challenge to show the struggles and triumphs of day-to-day practice in an entertaining and informative way. To show the human side and at the same time create an adventurous story. When not writing, you might find me on a horse, hiking with a dog, or exploring my latest hobby, volcanology.
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September 30, 2020
The Color of Rock by Sandra Cavallo Miller is a 2019 University of Nevada Press publication.
I love, love, love, medical dramas!! I even have a healthy collection of vintage 'nurse' romance novels, but to be honest, these days, except for the Harlequin medical line, I have a hard time finding fresh, contemporary medical dramas.
So, I was excited about discovering this series. This book is exactly the kind of medical story I like, but with a more adventurous setting, making this a unique spin on the usual medical romance.
Dr. Abby Wilmore has joined the staff at the Grand Canyon Clinic hoping for a fresh start. She treats patients for a plethora of maladies, including tourists who get a little too friendly with the squirrels.
It’s a unique challenge for her, and helps her confront and work through her periods of doubt and low self-confidence, but it’s her personal life that becomes a bit complicated when her work schedule interferes with her new romantic relationship, and her friendship with another doctor on staff takes on a bit more significance after he suffers a medical setback.
This is an easy read, with the just the right balance of drama, medical dilemmas, and romance. I liked Abby, and thought she was brave for admitting she had some problems that were getting out of hand, and for making a commitment to face her demons and conquer them. I also liked the setting and various medical issues that were unique to the area. The romantic elements kept me guessing, as I was pulling for Abby to the make the best choice for her.
I enjoyed this story and am looking forward to the second installment to see what new challenges and adventures await Dr. Wilmore!!
4 stars
I love, love, love, medical dramas!! I even have a healthy collection of vintage 'nurse' romance novels, but to be honest, these days, except for the Harlequin medical line, I have a hard time finding fresh, contemporary medical dramas.
So, I was excited about discovering this series. This book is exactly the kind of medical story I like, but with a more adventurous setting, making this a unique spin on the usual medical romance.
Dr. Abby Wilmore has joined the staff at the Grand Canyon Clinic hoping for a fresh start. She treats patients for a plethora of maladies, including tourists who get a little too friendly with the squirrels.
It’s a unique challenge for her, and helps her confront and work through her periods of doubt and low self-confidence, but it’s her personal life that becomes a bit complicated when her work schedule interferes with her new romantic relationship, and her friendship with another doctor on staff takes on a bit more significance after he suffers a medical setback.
This is an easy read, with the just the right balance of drama, medical dilemmas, and romance. I liked Abby, and thought she was brave for admitting she had some problems that were getting out of hand, and for making a commitment to face her demons and conquer them. I also liked the setting and various medical issues that were unique to the area. The romantic elements kept me guessing, as I was pulling for Abby to the make the best choice for her.
I enjoyed this story and am looking forward to the second installment to see what new challenges and adventures await Dr. Wilmore!!
4 stars
December 27, 2020
If you're into something a bit light without a lot of heavy lifting, then you may want to give a glance toward The Color of Rock by Sandra Cavallo Miller.
No matter how we try to distance ourselves from the tragedies and the traumas of life, they always seem to find a nesting place in the dark corners. Little triggers can shine a light in those quiet corners when we least expect it.
That's exactly what's harboring within Dr. Abby Wilmore. She's dealing with a broken engagement and an unpleasant situation from her last job. Leaving Phoenix seems the right thing to do. But starting a new position at the Grand Canyon Clinic is causing the ripples to quake again inside her. She's got a solid contact in Lucy whom she checks in with on a weekly basis to talk things through. She wants to avoid medication in dealing with her anxiety disorder.
Dr. John Pepper (Yep!) is her new boss at the clinic. He's a dry sort of character and a bit standoffish. Abby never quite knows if she's pulling her weight adequately. The office staff is helpful and tries to ease her into the daily routines. And one park ranger, in particular, makes a point of knowing Abby better. A relationship soon develops, but is it too much too soon?
Sandra Cavallo Miller has created an entertaining little novel of just over 200 pages. She's done her research into clinic life and emphasizes the beauty of the canyon hiking trails and terrain. Miller even highlights Abby's interest in astronomy and how it provides an outlet for her. Her descriptions of Abby's anxieties provide more understanding into the trauma that some individuals must deal with. The Color of Rock may just be just the thing to escape from the heaviness of the world about now.
I received a copy of this book through Goodreads Giveaways. My thanks to the University of Nevada Press and to Sandra Cavallo Miller for the opportunity.
No matter how we try to distance ourselves from the tragedies and the traumas of life, they always seem to find a nesting place in the dark corners. Little triggers can shine a light in those quiet corners when we least expect it.
That's exactly what's harboring within Dr. Abby Wilmore. She's dealing with a broken engagement and an unpleasant situation from her last job. Leaving Phoenix seems the right thing to do. But starting a new position at the Grand Canyon Clinic is causing the ripples to quake again inside her. She's got a solid contact in Lucy whom she checks in with on a weekly basis to talk things through. She wants to avoid medication in dealing with her anxiety disorder.
Dr. John Pepper (Yep!) is her new boss at the clinic. He's a dry sort of character and a bit standoffish. Abby never quite knows if she's pulling her weight adequately. The office staff is helpful and tries to ease her into the daily routines. And one park ranger, in particular, makes a point of knowing Abby better. A relationship soon develops, but is it too much too soon?
Sandra Cavallo Miller has created an entertaining little novel of just over 200 pages. She's done her research into clinic life and emphasizes the beauty of the canyon hiking trails and terrain. Miller even highlights Abby's interest in astronomy and how it provides an outlet for her. Her descriptions of Abby's anxieties provide more understanding into the trauma that some individuals must deal with. The Color of Rock may just be just the thing to escape from the heaviness of the world about now.
I received a copy of this book through Goodreads Giveaways. My thanks to the University of Nevada Press and to Sandra Cavallo Miller for the opportunity.
May 31, 2021
I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER AT MY REQUEST. THANK YOU.
I was really starting to feel wobbly about this read...almost a third of the way through and no one's dead, the sleuth is getting seriously invaded by a man whose hair-pulling, erection-rubbing, and general encroachment on her personal space she was just horny enough...no sex in a year! that'll do it to you!...not to firmly put a stop to. He isn't quite horrible enough not to seek at least some kind of consent (after the fact of kissing her, though). She gives him no clear no, a very unclear yes, and he accepts this as his borderline.
I am well aware that this is exactly in line with romance-novel conventions that still exist. Frankly, I'm one of those supporting a sea change to conditions where a man, receiving no positive reinforcement for his aggressive behavior, stops and apologizes. But this book isn't playing by those rules. It doesn't have to; Author Cavallo Miller tells her own story her own way by right. And, major readjustment of expectations time!, this isn't a mystery at all. It's a contemporary Bildungsroman.
That truth told to myself, I sat back to soak up the fun of Grey's Anatomy: Grand Canyon Clinic edition. Abby, fresh from pain and heartbreak and also having broomed her nebbishy fiancé out of her life, is Ready For Life! Sober. Unmedicated. Ready.
She hopes.
Her new practice, with long-time family practitioner Dr. John Pepper (no jokes, please), is busy from the get-go. We're not in medias res here, but we're left to infer it's summer because the Grand Canyon National Park is keeping her in minor injuries and the company of Ranger Jake Peterson. Hot hazel-eyed gym-rat Jake. Abby's anxiety disorder is suddenly closer to the surface because Jake is one of those obnoxious touch-and-loom alpha-actin' boys and she, while this isn't "her type," is Ready just not ready yet.
Events unfold; the clinic gets some bad stuff, and irritating Jake doesn't give up but instead does some Personal Revealing. Demonstrates keen alertness to Abby's needs and moods. Learns about her, too...and when decision time comes, so does he. From the point that event happens the relationship she's been skittish about simply is and there's fairly little introspection about how that might not be a great idea. Her AA sponsor and bestie back in Phoenix does call her on some of her stuff and she's right there with the agreements...but stuff goes on goin' on.
Abby's one of those heroines who "doesn't know how amazing she is"—Jake even says that in chapter five, that it makes him even crazier with lust and longing because of it. Now, if that trope is a deal-breaker for you, then do not read further. She *is* that girl.
But the book won't let you dismiss her, or her complexities, that easily. She's knocked down by a missed diagnosis that almost kills a tourist; when it's demonstrated to her that she didn't miss the diagnosis, the issue in question is 1) rare and 2) fast-moving, plus her Spidey-senses were tingling because she required the guy to come back later the same day on an excuse but really so she could look at him again. She's barely able to acknowledge how good she is at differential diagnosis when the stakes are incredibly high, and her action is swift, decisive, and life-saving. So that's Abby. She's got confidence issues, possesses strengths she doesn't know she has, and is a hawttie but blissfully unaware of it.
Then there's tragedy-soaked Dr. Pepper. He won't talk about it, has sad eyes, refuses to lighten up because...well, reasons, and he runs the clinic with a hands-off kindliness that spills over onto the patients. There's Ginger the receptionist, who takes people's squirrel-bite histories (actually histrionics) and there's Dolores the Mother Hen...and Priscilla. Priscilla is as attractive as a sodden Kleenex in a teenage boy's bedroom trash. But in all her wicked, man-trap glory, there she is.
This is the team...these are the players. The way they all interact is the fun of this ride; the camaraderie and pettiness, the sad, the bad, the catastrophic issues are all there, all handled in the space they share. Especially the worst, the vilest cowardly act that could've been quite sensationalized, just isn't. That felt like a giant rock slipping off my neck. The issues I have with the surfaces being telegraphs for the interiors are real. But when the time came to do something truly game-changing, Author Cavallo Miller did it. Changed the game. Didn't go for the lurid, cheap solution, but gave us this story's path: Inwards.
We travel inwards indeed, as the characters gavotte for our entertainment...condors and tents and fucking selfish smokers and Harry Potter jokes that work as intended...until, inevitably and without undue and unpleasant Theatrics, the right configurations are etched on the screen. It's not all that often that I want to read something that explores a setting as quotidian as a medical office. After reading this, Author Cavallo Miller's first novel, I'll go back to the clinic with her in her next book.
I was really starting to feel wobbly about this read...almost a third of the way through and no one's dead, the sleuth is getting seriously invaded by a man whose hair-pulling, erection-rubbing, and general encroachment on her personal space she was just horny enough...no sex in a year! that'll do it to you!...not to firmly put a stop to. He isn't quite horrible enough not to seek at least some kind of consent (after the fact of kissing her, though). She gives him no clear no, a very unclear yes, and he accepts this as his borderline.
I am well aware that this is exactly in line with romance-novel conventions that still exist. Frankly, I'm one of those supporting a sea change to conditions where a man, receiving no positive reinforcement for his aggressive behavior, stops and apologizes. But this book isn't playing by those rules. It doesn't have to; Author Cavallo Miller tells her own story her own way by right. And, major readjustment of expectations time!, this isn't a mystery at all. It's a contemporary Bildungsroman.
That truth told to myself, I sat back to soak up the fun of Grey's Anatomy: Grand Canyon Clinic edition. Abby, fresh from pain and heartbreak and also having broomed her nebbishy fiancé out of her life, is Ready For Life! Sober. Unmedicated. Ready.
She hopes.
Her new practice, with long-time family practitioner Dr. John Pepper (no jokes, please), is busy from the get-go. We're not in medias res here, but we're left to infer it's summer because the Grand Canyon National Park is keeping her in minor injuries and the company of Ranger Jake Peterson. Hot hazel-eyed gym-rat Jake. Abby's anxiety disorder is suddenly closer to the surface because Jake is one of those obnoxious touch-and-loom alpha-actin' boys and she, while this isn't "her type," is Ready just not ready yet.
Events unfold; the clinic gets some bad stuff, and irritating Jake doesn't give up but instead does some Personal Revealing. Demonstrates keen alertness to Abby's needs and moods. Learns about her, too...and when decision time comes, so does he. From the point that event happens the relationship she's been skittish about simply is and there's fairly little introspection about how that might not be a great idea. Her AA sponsor and bestie back in Phoenix does call her on some of her stuff and she's right there with the agreements...but stuff goes on goin' on.
Abby's one of those heroines who "doesn't know how amazing she is"—Jake even says that in chapter five, that it makes him even crazier with lust and longing because of it. Now, if that trope is a deal-breaker for you, then do not read further. She *is* that girl.
But the book won't let you dismiss her, or her complexities, that easily. She's knocked down by a missed diagnosis that almost kills a tourist; when it's demonstrated to her that she didn't miss the diagnosis, the issue in question is 1) rare and 2) fast-moving, plus her Spidey-senses were tingling because she required the guy to come back later the same day on an excuse but really so she could look at him again. She's barely able to acknowledge how good she is at differential diagnosis when the stakes are incredibly high, and her action is swift, decisive, and life-saving. So that's Abby. She's got confidence issues, possesses strengths she doesn't know she has, and is a hawttie but blissfully unaware of it.
Then there's tragedy-soaked Dr. Pepper. He won't talk about it, has sad eyes, refuses to lighten up because...well, reasons, and he runs the clinic with a hands-off kindliness that spills over onto the patients. There's Ginger the receptionist, who takes people's squirrel-bite histories (actually histrionics) and there's Dolores the Mother Hen...and Priscilla. Priscilla is as attractive as a sodden Kleenex in a teenage boy's bedroom trash. But in all her wicked, man-trap glory, there she is.
This is the team...these are the players. The way they all interact is the fun of this ride; the camaraderie and pettiness, the sad, the bad, the catastrophic issues are all there, all handled in the space they share. Especially the worst, the vilest cowardly act that could've been quite sensationalized, just isn't. That felt like a giant rock slipping off my neck. The issues I have with the surfaces being telegraphs for the interiors are real. But when the time came to do something truly game-changing, Author Cavallo Miller did it. Changed the game. Didn't go for the lurid, cheap solution, but gave us this story's path: Inwards.
We travel inwards indeed, as the characters gavotte for our entertainment...condors and tents and fucking selfish smokers and Harry Potter jokes that work as intended...until, inevitably and without undue and unpleasant Theatrics, the right configurations are etched on the screen. It's not all that often that I want to read something that explores a setting as quotidian as a medical office. After reading this, Author Cavallo Miller's first novel, I'll go back to the clinic with her in her next book.
September 22, 2019
I was unhappy a quarter of the way into this book, rolling my eyes and lamenting the General Hospital sort of feel, and considering not finishing it. Thankfully, it's a short novel. Happily, two thirds of the way through the novel I realized it's got a feel closer to E.R. (with some really lovely descriptions of life in Canyon territory). I finished it, and it was charming and I enjoyed it.
March 16, 2023
The writing here was very amateur. The plot centered around Dr. Abby Whitmore who seems to spend most of the story agonizing over dating a ranger who is possessive, touches her even when she asks him not to, and eventually cheats on her. Interspersed among this drama are scenes of Dr. Whitmore caring for patients, which only serve as heavy-handed reminders of all of the things your doctor tells you to do—her patients seem to love being lectured about diabetes management and the importance of getting mammograms. I know the author is a retired primary care physician and it is painfully obvious that she wrote this out of her fantasies of how life in a clinic should be. I received this book in a Goodreads Giveaway, all opinions are mine.
October 19, 2019
I really liked this book. I loved the setting and the wonderful descriptive narrative. It's a feel good kind of book.
October 8, 2020
I love to read books about medicine, female doctors, and disease so I was eager for this one written by an author who is a retired academic family physician. I loved the Grand Canyon setting and the details about the activities at the clinic, but I was really disappointed with all the romance and sex as I feel it detracted from the interesting aspects of the story.
Dr. Abigail Wilmore comes to the canyon from Phoenix and is trying to manage her own anxiety disorder and start over in the more rural setting working at a clinic that handles the medical needs of many tourists and a few people who actually live in the area. She handles the challenging workload, develops a few professional relationships, and finds love. NO SPOILERS.
I have the second book featuring this character from NetGalley and University of Nevada Press on my review shelf, so I wanted to read the first in the series before tackling it. I liked Abby enough to find out more about her, but am really more curious about the unique setting and hope there is more of the medical practice in this next one and less sex/romance.
Dr. Abigail Wilmore comes to the canyon from Phoenix and is trying to manage her own anxiety disorder and start over in the more rural setting working at a clinic that handles the medical needs of many tourists and a few people who actually live in the area. She handles the challenging workload, develops a few professional relationships, and finds love. NO SPOILERS.
I have the second book featuring this character from NetGalley and University of Nevada Press on my review shelf, so I wanted to read the first in the series before tackling it. I liked Abby enough to find out more about her, but am really more curious about the unique setting and hope there is more of the medical practice in this next one and less sex/romance.
January 7, 2020
The first 1/4 of the book almost lost me. It felt a trope-heavy and I was absolutely not interested in (if not annoyed by) the love story. The book took a great turn and I’m glad that I gave it a chance despite the rocky (pun kinda intended) beginning.
November 5, 2019
This was a very enjoyable book.
This is the story is Abby. A doctor who decides to leave the big city medical practice, for a smaller, clinic on the Grand Canyon. She needs a break to get some personal issues sorted out, and feels like she can do this in a smaller area. She meets her boss, Dr. John Pepper. Who seems brooding and not so friendly. She also finds romance, though she’s always overthinking and second guessing.
I really enjoyed this story. It was a sweet and heartwarming story. The characters are friendly and likable. The only issue I felt with the book was that sometimes it seems like the story was rushed. Especially with the passing of time. Sometimes it was hard to tell that time had passed then it would talk about it being several weeks or months later. But overall it didn’t take away from the story and it was still enjoyable. Would recommend.
This is the story is Abby. A doctor who decides to leave the big city medical practice, for a smaller, clinic on the Grand Canyon. She needs a break to get some personal issues sorted out, and feels like she can do this in a smaller area. She meets her boss, Dr. John Pepper. Who seems brooding and not so friendly. She also finds romance, though she’s always overthinking and second guessing.
I really enjoyed this story. It was a sweet and heartwarming story. The characters are friendly and likable. The only issue I felt with the book was that sometimes it seems like the story was rushed. Especially with the passing of time. Sometimes it was hard to tell that time had passed then it would talk about it being several weeks or months later. But overall it didn’t take away from the story and it was still enjoyable. Would recommend.
October 22, 2019
This is the story of a woman doctor who takes a job at a clinic in rural Arizona. On the surface on would think that medical issues would be the focus. Not so. The focus of the novel is principally about her relationships with men who want to court her. The book is a run of the mill romance in my opinion and this educated woman seems to be putty in the hands of a jerky guy who wants sex when she is tired or sick. I would have dropped that guy in a flash. All good of course at the end.
May 22, 2024
I enjoyed this for the Grand Canyon setting and the explorations of the type of medical problems that happen there. The writing, characters, and plot kept me engaged, but it suffered a little from a mismatch between expectations and reality. In my library, it's in the fiction section. But this is clearly a romance. I felt a bit disappointed by the emphasis on romance and sex, when there were many other more interesting themes and events to explore in such a great setting. So if you're looking for/don't mind a romance, I think you'll really enjoy this.
It looks like Sandra Cavallo Miller has other books set in Arizona and other national parks beside the Grand Canyon. I might check them out (going in with the mindset that it will probably be a romance).
It looks like Sandra Cavallo Miller has other books set in Arizona and other national parks beside the Grand Canyon. I might check them out (going in with the mindset that it will probably be a romance).
February 25, 2020
I really wanted to like this book; I love the setting and the premise. However I found myself deeply disturbed by Jake’s behavior towards the main character. From the beginning he is constantly touching her, grabbing her waist, etc. At one point he points to a distant cloud while rubbing her neck with one of his fingers (and they just met). The author seems to think this kind of behavior from a strange man is somehow swoon worthy. Really? We’re in the year 2020 and someone is still pushing the narrative that unwanted advances and stalking behavior are sexy? No no no. The behavior is predatory, creepy, and cringe worthy. I couldn’t even finish the book.
March 24, 2021
I have learned so much about the Grand Canyon in reading this book and this was a great book to read for Women's History month as it is written by a female physician about a female physician at the Grand Canyon clinic. Snake bites, rabies and bubonic plague from squirrels, and people overestimating their physical capabilities hiking through Grand Canyon trails where it often gets over 100 degrees. Did not realize that they also get snow and ice in the winter. There is also a nice love story budding here, which I hope continues into book two.
April 5, 2020
I received a copy of this from a Goodreads giveaway.
This was an enjoyable little romance book. No strange plot twists or weird gimmicks. Broken girl changes her scenery, meets gorgeous guy, has fling, but all along it’s the broken guy she falls for.
The settling is gorgeous, the Grand Canyon with its wild life and wild citizens. The book wasn’t harlequin-y though, so no ripped bodices or anything like that, more like a a Hallmark movie.
This was an enjoyable little romance book. No strange plot twists or weird gimmicks. Broken girl changes her scenery, meets gorgeous guy, has fling, but all along it’s the broken guy she falls for.
The settling is gorgeous, the Grand Canyon with its wild life and wild citizens. The book wasn’t harlequin-y though, so no ripped bodices or anything like that, more like a a Hallmark movie.
October 29, 2020
As the grand canyon has many layers, so do the characters and circumstances in this novel that takes place there. Unfortunately, these layers of the story and characters were not given the depth needed to make this book riveting.
That being said however, I did enjoy the book. Dr. Abby Wilmore suffers from anxiety attacks after an incident at her old job. She moves to the grand canyon area to start anew. If you enjoy reading romance and medical dramas, this book would be a good fit.
That being said however, I did enjoy the book. Dr. Abby Wilmore suffers from anxiety attacks after an incident at her old job. She moves to the grand canyon area to start anew. If you enjoy reading romance and medical dramas, this book would be a good fit.
December 22, 2022
Second book I have read by Sandra Cavallo Miller....this was her first published.
Love her style and how she includes so much of Arizona in her writing. I have now lived in AZ for many years and have been to most or all of the locales she uses.
Her style is easy and natural...her characters realistic (often based on actual people or a montage of people).
She has written more books that I have not read and I will be adding those.
Love her style and how she includes so much of Arizona in her writing. I have now lived in AZ for many years and have been to most or all of the locales she uses.
Her style is easy and natural...her characters realistic (often based on actual people or a montage of people).
She has written more books that I have not read and I will be adding those.
September 17, 2021
This is a charming story of a physician who has lost her confidence and overcoming addiction. She moves from her security to a new place to discover who she is and what she wants from herself and career. Along with a new boss and office, she meets a stranger, who presents her with a challenge. Can't say more without spoilers. Enjoy. Recommend, especially if you like romance with an edge.
November 12, 2019
I enjoyed the beautiful descriptions of the landscape. However, I was completely left cold by the aggressiveness of Jake. I did not like that it was okay for him to grope Abby. I also did not like that even though she protested she let him grope her. This just ruined the entire book for me.
October 25, 2020
I won this book in a goodreads drawing.
A doctor recovering from anxiety, depression, and various other mental issues starts working for the ER at the Grand Canyon. She keeps pretty busy, but still has time for romance.
Okay, but could be more thrilling.
A doctor recovering from anxiety, depression, and various other mental issues starts working for the ER at the Grand Canyon. She keeps pretty busy, but still has time for romance.
Okay, but could be more thrilling.
November 5, 2020
This was a sweet story about a doctor starting over in a new place and just trying to be the best version of herself. Sandra Cavallo Miller takes the time to create complex, real, and lovable characters, and makes the most of the setting to make this novel come alive. I definitely recommend!
June 13, 2017
This was such a fun read with touching poignant spots and humor sprinkled throughout.
March 13, 2020
A new author. Greatdescription of the area aroung the Grand Canyon. Enjoyed the medical aspects too.
3 1/2 stars.
3 1/2 stars.
October 22, 2020
This was a pleasant read- loved the Grand Canyon setting. And Dr Abby was interesting- less than perfect like all of us.
February 21, 2021
Very fast read. The descriptions of the canyons and other landscape were breathtaking. A really good story line for a first novel. I really enjoyed this novel.
March 10, 2021
3.5 stars. Not my typical read, but a charming medical romance.
November 2, 2021
I've had this book for some time, not sure why I'd not read it. Quick read, I read myself to sleep with it and eagerly opened it the next morning to finish it!
March 1, 2023
75% of the book was predicable but the last 25% was a pleasant surprise.
February 21, 2025
I had a hard time with the Jake character. He was very sexually aggressive and an a**hole, and I couldn't get over that. This genre of book is not for me.
December 5, 2019
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