154. Klondike Doctor (Klondike/Yukon Gold Rush, 1) – Kate Bridges, Harlequin Historical Western, May 2007, ISBN: 9780373294480, 289p.
Featuring: Elizabeth (Liza) Langley (Blade) and Colt (Colton) Hunter (Blade)
Synopsis (from back cover):
DELICATE AND DEMURE, ELIZABETH LANGLEY WAS NOT!
Hadn't she defied upper-class conventions to become a doctor? And now a troubling secret would send her north in search of answers and adventure with the exasperating Colt Hunter. Everything he said made her blood boil…yet everything he was made her heart race!
Mountie Sergeant Colt Hunter had sworn to protect, and he'd never met a woman more in need of protection than the headstrong doctor. Why couldn't she understand that the untamed wilderness of the Yukon was no fit place for a genteel lady? Together they traveled a dangerous road where duty warred with passion, and even Colt couldn't foresee which would win out….
Comments:
It's been a long time since I've read a story with Mounties, and I'm pretty sure the last time I did it was an Inspirational (Janette Oke, maybe?). Anyway, an enjoyable read. And I'm looking forward to reading more of this series/author. It really would have been something to see how people lived through the gold rush(es). I'm fairly certain I wouldn't want to go through the hardships of travelling there though.
The great gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap [Hah! It most certainly is not!], it consoles, it distracts, it excites. It gives knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is moral illumination. ~ Elizabeth Hardwick
