Lois Richer

This is the 2nd book in the Pennies From Heaven series. In this book, Chef Cassidy Preston has to work in a shelter kitchen for 6 months to repay a debt to Elizabeth Wisdom for pulling her up out of a destitute situation and sending her to Europe for career training. But she has dreams - big dreams. So, she'll pay her dues and then get out.

Tyson St John is the man who runs the shelter while learning how to get along with his orphaned nephew (although the excerpt on the inside page says it's his stepson which was rather confusing). The main problem with Ty is that he suffers post traumatic disorder after a stint in the Gulf War. And I'm talking major suffering here - not a minute of his day goes by when he is scared about something bad happening.

What a shock! GloryAnn Cranbrook was born and raised in the extremes of the Arctic but must live in Hawaii for 6 months to pay off a debt. And she doesn't want to go! Before her missionary mother passed away, GloryAnn promised she'd go back and doctor to the Inuit. She promised.

Dr. Jare Steele is used to doctors - female and otherwise - parading through his clinic, giving orders, changing things, then leaving again. He's built up an immunity to people walking out on him. What started as a personal tragedy has evolved into a wall of stoicism that no one - including the children in his care - can breach.

GloryAnn just wants to do her 6 months then leave. She doesn't want to enjoy the warm tropical breeze, the refreshing morning swims, the abundance of fresh fruit. She knows when she goes north, everything will be weeks if not months old and terribly expensive so she mustn't get used to this kind of life.

Cassidy Preston owed Elizabeth Wisdom for the help she gave her six years earlier.  So, for six months she will be working in the kitchen at the homeless shelter, The Haven.  But she doesn't expect to have to deal with Tyson St.

When Dr. GloryAnn Cranbrook goes to a specialty children's clinic in the back country of Oahu, she can hardly believe the difference from the town in Inuit country where she grew up.  She's excited to learn Dr. Jared Steele's technique for skin grafting, so that she can take it back with her when she returns home.  Jared, however, not only is no longer doing the procedure, he refuses to discuss it, or the boy who died a few days after getting a graft.  Jared seems cold and uncaring, but is his demeanor the real man, or is he just avoiding thinking about his own broken heart? 

      Could you image sending 6 yrs of your life w/out knowing you are anyone else even your own family.

      That is what happened to Dallas Hendrson he lost 6 yrs of his life and family time. That was until his wife Gracie found him in a Dallas Tx airport the some place that they meet.

Score: 4

Pennies from Heaven: Book 2:

Score: 3.5

Pennies from Heaven Book 1:

Absoluetly amazing book. Definate must read!!!!