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The Lovesick Cure (Marrying Stone #3)

by Pamela Morsi (Goodreads Author)

3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 · rating details · 165 ratings · 67 reviews

For Jesse Winsloe, the answer is clear: head into hiding. Single again and laid off from work, Jesse flees to Onery Cabin to lick her wounds with her ancient aunt Will—a Granny woman with the secret to healing the lovelorn.Sure, Onery Cabin may be right out of Hollywood's Lifestyles of the Poor and Hillbilly, but Marrying Stone Mountain has its charm—including the local ph...more

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Published August 28th 2012 by Harlequin MIRA (first published August 21st 2012)

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Aug 06, 2012 Jill rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary-romance

"We can't have sex in Aunt Will's rocking chair," Jesse declared.

"Absolutely not," Piney agreed, solemnly. "Totally inappropriate. What would you think about bending over the kitchen table?"

When Jesse Winsloe loses her job as an earth sciences teacher and her fiancé to another woman, she heads to the small town of Marrying Stone in the Ozarks to spend time with her Aunt Will. An old time healer or "granny woman", Aunt Will uses herbs as remedies for all types of ills, including lovesickness. For...more

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Oct 25, 2012 ♥Rachel♥ rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I felt like I was transported to the deep South, and could easily be sipping sweet tea, sitting on a porch swing, while reading this. It was a sweet tale of family, getting over heartbreak, and finding love in unexpected places. And while there was little in the way of drama, I was totally immersed in this sweet tale.

Jesse has just had her heart broken by what she thought was a fine upstanding man, Greg. The principal of the high school she where she taught earth science. It seems that another c...more I felt like I was transported to the deep South, and could easily be sipping sweet tea, sitting on a porch swing, while reading this. It was a sweet tale of family, getting over heartbreak, and finding love in unexpected places. And while there was little in the way of drama, I was totally immersed in this sweet tale.

Jesse has just had her heart broken by what she thought was a fine upstanding man, Greg. The principal of the high school she where she taught earth science. It seems that another caught his eye and he tossed aside a two-year engagement and married someone else. To add insult to injury, right before this switch-up (or switch-down, you decide), Greg picked Jesse to lay-off instead of another teacher because of how it would look if he kept her on instead. So with no job and no fiancée, and no plans Jesse decides to flee Tulsa and visit with her ancient Aunt Will, in the Ozarks of Arkansas.

Aunt Will is a celebrity of sorts in this small, hayseed town. She’s what they call a “granny woman,” someone who dispenses herbs, “yarbs” as they call it, tonics and folk cures. But much more than that, Aunt Will seemed to be the woman the town relied on for cures and advice for all things that ailed them. When Jesse comes to visit, Aunt Will insists that Jesse take “lovesick cure” a putrid smelling poultice that’s applied to the chest every night for six days to cure her heartbreak. This is how she connects to Piney, the town Doc who recognized that horrid smell from his own time with the poultice, much to Jesse’s embarrassment. He’s had experience with heartbreak as well.

This story was told from mainly Jesse and Piney’s POV but other characters also have some time spent on them. Jesse was a likeable main character, someone I sided with from the beginning. How could you not feel for this woman who’s been dumped by her fiancée, so he can up and marry someone else after a two-year engagement? She’s from the big city but is never condescending to her Aunt Will or the others in the small town, and the love and care she shows her old Aunt is touching. Piney is a man every woman would want, responsible, good-looking, and a wonderful father. Every woman, that is, except for his wife who took off long ago. The friendship Jesse strikes up with Piney is innocent enough at first but soon they can’t fight the shared growing attraction.

The Lovesick Cure reeled me in with the promise of romance, but honestly, the history and interactions between all of these characters were just as captivating to me. There was a solid cast of secondary characters, Piney’s teenage son, Tree, and his girlfriend Camryn. And then there’s Aunt Will, and her past life and a couple of intriguing secrets. They all had their own story that you wanted to discover and watch unfold as well. I loved all of Aunt Will’s sage advice handed out with or without tact (mostly without), but hey, sometimes people have to be slapped upside the head to get a point.

This was an engrossing and sweet tale, with a romance that’ll make you say “awww” in the end.

Thank you to Netgalley and Halequin MIRA for allowing me to read this.

You can find this review and more at The Readers Den.

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Aug 05, 2012 KatLynne rated it 4 of 5 stars

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“I’ll tell you a secret about the men in this world. They like young pretty girls, but when pretty teams up with smart and resourceful, it’s more than an elixir, it’s nearly a dad-blamed aphrodisiac.” ….words of wisdom from Aunt Will

Without a doubt Pamela Morsi is an author with incredible talent. In The Lovesick Cure those attributes shine. The book flows beautifully and is so well written that as I read Jesse, aka DuJess, and Aunt Will’s story, I felt as if I was there among the locals of Mar...more

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Mar 03, 2013 edzkie♥§*.*§♥ rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-i-read-again-and-again, books-that-hard-to-forget, books-that-made-me-cry-every-time, books-i-love-so-so-much

Prepare a bucket for a wonderful tearjerker journey to Marrying Stone!

“I’ll tell you a secret about the men in this world. They like young pretty girls, but when pretty teams up with smart and resourceful, it’s more than an elixir, it’s nearly a dad-blamed aphrodisiac.”

I love everything about this book. Sweet, funny, romantic & full of lessons.I want to pull wise Aunt Will and give her a hug for all of her wonderful wisdom. She's my favorite until the end. She deserve all the respect and l...more

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Oct 16, 2012 Michelle [Helen Geek] rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: arc-netgalley, tbr-kindle, less-than-3, sports, ya

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Some of my favorite books are Pamela Morsi books. So, when I was awarded the ARC for The Lovesick Cure, I was excited. After I read it, I was disappointed. It missed the mark for me on most every category. It isn't the Pamela Morsi I've come to know and if this were the first book I'd read of her, I wouldn't be in any rush to read another.

Overall Rating: 2.9
Book Cover / Book Blurb = 3 / 5 = total of 4
Writer’s Voice = 2.5
Charac...more

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Aug 12, 2012 Becs - Sinfully Sexy Book Reviews rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: net-galley-for-review, review-copy, contemporary-romance, small-town-romance, made-me-cry

I have to say that books like The Lovesick Cure are really not my usual fare. I like my drama much more intense, my romance much steamier and the action to be a lot more edgy but they say a change is as good as a rest and I’m happy to report that I really loved this book. It definitely was a change of pace for me and I actually felt myself slowing down, relaxing, savouring every word – normally I do everything at breakneck speed and this book really did calm me. Of course, it made me cry like a...more I have to say that books like The Lovesick Cure are really not my usual fare. I like my drama much more intense, my romance much steamier and the action to be a lot more edgy but they say a change is as good as a rest and I’m happy to report that I really loved this book. It definitely was a change of pace for me and I actually felt myself slowing down, relaxing, savouring every word – normally I do everything at breakneck speed and this book really did calm me. Of course, it made me cry like a baby too!!

So, we have Jesse, a school teacher and fiancé to the principal who suddenly finds herself dumped and fired. She decides to go and stay with Aunt Will her dead father’s relative who lives on a remote subsistence farm in the Ozarks. There Aunt Will subjects her to The Lovesick Cure – a foul smelling poultice that she smears all over her chest which sets hard and practically takes her nipples off when she removes it!!

Jesse meets Piney, a single Dad and physician’s assistant, and the only other recipient of Aunt Will’s Lovesick Cure – this connection makes them laugh, appreciate their attraction for one another and they start a ‘no-strings, definitely-ending, fun while it lasts’ affair. There’s also a beautiful secondary romance between Piney’s teenage basketball hero son, Tree, and a local girl Camryn.

BUT – the heart of the novel is Aunt Will. She’s one of THE most amazing characters I’ve ever read – she made me laugh and she most definitely made me cry. She dispenses ol’ timers wisdom and remedies to just about everyone and the local community hold her in the highest respect. Aunt Will is sick and Jesse decides to stay on longer than she planned and her relationship with Piney intensifies and they both know that heartbreak is just around the corner for them both once more when Jesse goes home.

Piney is also determined that his son doesn’t follow in his footsteps and get his high school girlfriend pregnant and cautions Tree against having sex with his girlfriend, all the time enjoying a passionate sexual relationship with Jesse. I guess this makes him a hypocrite but it’s hard to feel that way about him, he’s such a nice guy. I understand his motivations and I couldn’t help but fall hard for him and think that Jesse was lucky to find someone like him after her traumatic breakup.

So, it’s a beautiful story well told that could so easily have been corny but it just wasn’t. It’s totally character driven and it’s the richness of these characters that grabs you and doesn’t let go until the last word. I felt fully transported to the Ozarks, the reality of life on a subsistence farm, could vividly see all the characters and settings in my mind’s eye and it really did slow me down for a couple of days and took me somewhere I don’t normally go with fiction and I loved every second.

Aunt Will – you’ve been unforgettable.

4 stars contemporary romance

With thanks for the ARC from Harlequin via NetGalley

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Oct 16, 2012 Janga rated it 4 of 5 stars

I always love Morsi's voice, and I loved going back to Marrying Stone. This is a good book, but it's not the catch-in-the-throat, punch-in-the-heart read that some of her books are.

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Oct 23, 2012 Keri rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: reviewed, 2012-read, pamela-morsi, romance-contemporary

I can't call this anything other than sweet. It was good to get back to PM's world, as I hadn't been there in awhile. I have always loved her historicals and to me no one does Americana as good as she does. She had moved into the chic-lit genre and left me behind as a reader. That is ok the separation was good. I loved this little romance. There were no sparkling vampires, werewolves or whips and chains. Just a woman and a man trying to find their way back to romance. I could completely identify...more

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Aug 27, 2012 .þµŋψà. [Punya Reviews...] rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: All the Pamela Morsi and Marrying Stone fans, don't miss this one...

Shelves: arc-reviewcopy-netgalley-edelweiss, pamela-morsi, i-cried-like-a-baby, favorites, sweetnsexy-beta, i-wanna-have-your-babies

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. My review contains spoilers and they're mostly my thoughts as I went with the book...

Reading of The Lovesick Cure was very special for me for two major reasons; one, so far, I haven’t read any of PM’s contemporaries. I picked this one because the blurb reminded me so much of Marrying Stone series, which is the reason number two. I have to admit in both regard, I’m very happy. This book was beautiful, both in characterization and in plotting, along with the narratives. But then, I know PM can del...more

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Sep 01, 2012 Karen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: keepers

this book was like coming home . all the familiar characters from Simple Jess and the Marrying stone came home.. like a wonderful meal that fills you up this book did it for me..

Thank you Thank you

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Feb 19, 2013 Heidi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Jess plasters a big fake smile on her face as she repeatedly reassures everyone she is so happy for her ex-fiancé and his new wife. The truth is deep inside she is not okay, she is heart sick. How could Greg after eight years abandon her and break their engagement? Jess needs to escape. She was recently laid off from her teaching job, by her ex-fiancé, and with no wedding and no job life is depressing. Quickly, Jess plans to visit her aging Aunt Will in the Ozarks. Some time away will do her goo...more

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Nov 11, 2012 Diana rated it 4 of 5 stars

I won this book from RomanceJunkies and I liked it alot.I have always loved the Ozarks and the way of life that mountain people have.
Jesse,aka DuJess, is unemployed and just dumped by her fiance so her life is Tulsa is not what she needs. So her Mom suggests she go see her Aunt Will,kin from her Dad's family,to get away for awhile and rethink her life. She doesn't realize that she will end up on a mountaintop and have to learn to take care of chickens and hogs and milk a Cow. She finds solace ta...more

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Sep 01, 2012 Crystal rated it 4 of 5 stars

First thoughts
It’s a contemporary romance, that makes it a must try. It’s Harlequin and they can do no wrong with romance. Plus the small town setting is a big plus

My thoughts
Cute story of women who gets her heart broken and decides to head to small town life to spend time with her ailing Aunt, Erwin or Piney is a single father is trying to get over his divorce and get in a new relationship (fling/physical), but when you live in a small town what you do is seen by ALL. Then Jesse comes along and...more First thoughts
It’s a contemporary romance, that makes it a must try. It’s Harlequin and they can do no wrong with romance. Plus the small town setting is a big plus

My thoughts
Cute story of women who gets her heart broken and decides to head to small town life to spend time with her ailing Aunt, Erwin or Piney is a single father is trying to get over his divorce and get in a new relationship (fling/physical), but when you live in a small town what you do is seen by ALL. Then Jesse comes along and things start looking up for the both of them. They both want the intimacy without the relationship, and thus their friends with benefits situation begins.The Lovesick Cure is a story I just fell in love with. Everyone knows I adore a good small town love story. From the synopsis you would think this is just your average romance but it is so much more.

One thing I like about this story is the characters. Of course I love Jesse and Piney. But I didn’t know I would fall in love with every other character in this small town. Aunt Will’s character kind of just takes over. She is the “granny” that everyone wants to have. She is there with great advice. She is wise and caring, but also tells it like it is. Did I mention I love this character? She was perfect. I wish I could bottle all her wisdom and advice and save it for later. Aunt Willie will make, you laugh, cry, and if you don’t fall in love with her than you should just read the book again. There is also a side story going on with Tree (piney’s seventeen year old son) and his girlfriend Camyrn. The author also explores Piney’s relationship with tree, and you get to see their father/son interaction. I love that every character has a voice and even though I expected more romance having all of the side stories wasn’t bad at all.

Something I didn’t like where Camyrn’s character at times. I understand she was scared about where her relationship would go with Tree in college, but man sometimes I just didn’t like her, you will see why if you read it or maybe you won’t. It could be just me.

Overall, “The Lovesick Cure” was a pretty decent book. It turned out to be more of a life lesson’s story, and a sort of right or passage, than a full-fledged romance novel. At the end some secrets are told and it’s a little bit on a mini shocker!

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Aug 21, 2012 Leigh rated it 5 of 5 stars

Can an unpretentious story with simple characters set against the backdrop of the Arkansas Ozark Mountains be a Desert Island Keeper? It can when it is written by Pamela Morsi and includes her trademark humor and gift of storytelling.

With a fixed fake smile on her face and a litany of “I am just so happy for them, I am just so very happy for them”, former teacher Jesse Winsloe endures sympathetic and solicitous conjectures from past co-workers and acquaintances as Greg Wilkinson, her ex-fiancé a...more

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Aug 17, 2012 Diana Hockley rated it 5 of 5 stars

This novel is not written in what I would call the "traditional romance normally associated with Harlequin.

The maturity and depth of the plot surprised and pleased me, the characters and story-line exceeding my expectations. Well-written - I found no errors - the story of Aunt Will, Jess, Piney, Tree and particularly the growing-up of Camryn is handled sensitively, but without sentimentality. The cultural aspects of life in the Ozarks were interesting and added greatly to my enjoyment.

The love s...more

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Jul 09, 2012 Paula Phillips rated it 4 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Review: The Lovesick Cure - Pamela Morsi-August 2012
Imagine one day having everything you want , a good job teaching a subject you are passionate about e.g for Jessie it's Earth Science and being engaged and planning your wedding to the school Principal. Then a few months later , you have lost not only your job but also your fiancé has replaced you with a new bride and to make matters worse , you live in a small-town.
This was now the prospect of Jessie Winsloe's life , she had no job and no fia...more

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Sep 22, 2012 Becky Moe rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary, netgalley

I found a new author to read! Though at first I was a bit leery of the remote Ozark setting (a hero named Piney? Jesse, the heroine, wearing a stinky poultice to bed for six consecutive nights? having to read about that same poultice being--literally--ripped off her skin each morning? and worst of all--a character living in a cabin with NO SHOWER? the horror!), I found myself quickly drawn into the lives of the characters and barely even noticed that Piney's teen-aged son went by the moniker of...more

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Jun 29, 2012 Hsiau Wei rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-read-in-2012

The book tell the story of Jess whose heartache bought her to Aunt Will. It was at the mountain that Jess begin her journey of recovery with the help from her aunt. Aunt Will is an independent lady who lots aof people admire and some rejected her. Through Aunt will, Jess begin to learn about herself and soon, she begin a relationship with Piney, the local Doctor. However, there were things that Aunt Will is hiding from everyone including Jess which will give a shock to the villagers and to Jess...more

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Oct 15, 2012 Kelly Moran rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: my-reviews

When her fiancé leaves her for a prettier model, Jesse Winsloe heads to Onery Cabin to visit her elderly Aunt Will--a cantankerous woman with a secret to curing heartbreak. But maybe her crazy aunt and isolated town do have healing powers. When she meets physician assistant Piney Baxley, she finds herself feeling better already.

This book has cemented my belief that romance books should never take place deep in the Ozarks. Aside from two secondary characters, I just wanted the rest to go away. P...more

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Sep 25, 2012 CJ - Secret Charm marked it as couldn-t-finish

I really wanted to love this book. Needless to say, I didn't. It had potential but it didn't really live up to it for me.

The best part about this book was the one liners and the quotes from Aunt Will. I didn't make it past the first line of Chapter 13 so maybe the story developed into something interesting and remarkable but it didn't work for me.

I like my heroines to have feelings. Jess seemed passive, emotionally stunted and too stuck in her own head for me to feel anything for her. She was li...more

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Aug 09, 2012 Anne rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was not a bad book but for some reason I did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would. The setting is a remote cabin in a poor town in the Ozarks. Because Jesse and Aunt Will are so isolated there is not a lot to read about, the two of them do chores, eat together, and have the occasional visitor.

The characters were the best part of the book. I felt for Jesse who was nursing a broken heart and Aunt Will was interesting with her words of wisdom and old remedies that the people of the town...more

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Oct 04, 2012 Juli rated it 4 of 5 stars

I haven't read the (much) earlier books by this author set in the same location in the early 20th century, Marrying Stone and Simple Jess, but they are highly recommended by some readers whose opinions I trust. I enjoyed this one even without the connections. There are characters and relationships that could easily be shallow clichés, but I thought they were handled in unique ways.

Jesse's feelings about being dumped by her fiancé, losing her job and dealing with living conditions in the backwoo...more

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Sep 07, 2012 Hortencia rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: a-onr, a-favourite-author, author-morsi-p, a-favourite

No one can tell a story as well as Pamela Morsi can.

'The Lovesick Cure' is a return to Marrying Stone Mountain, a revisiting of the Winsloes, the Bests and the McNees, among others. It is beautifully told, with interesting, believable characters that are very human and a story that is bitter-sweet and thought-provoking. Marrying Stone Mountain, so warmly and interestingly described, is a character unto itself. While it is enriched by the first two books in the 'Marrying Stone' series, this tale...more

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Jul 01, 2012 Emma rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: all-time-favorites

I didn't really know what to expect when I started reading this book. A romance, a women fiction... no idea at all. And while I've heard of Pamela Morsi, I've never read any of her books. This one being on Netgallet I decided to give it a try. Wow, best idea I had in a long time.
I absoutely loved this book. It is a longer book and since I was pretty busy this week-end, it took me three days to read it. I found myself thinking about Jesse and Piney and imagining dialogues in my head between reads...more

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Aug 04, 2012 Nana rated it 3 of 5 stars

Jesse Winsloe came to Marrying Stone, Ozark, Arkansas with her heart broken. Her fiance dumped her and married another woman. She also lost her job as a teacher (in a school where her ex-fiance was the headmaster). She lived with her old Aunt Will, the former traditional-healer, who tried to help her fixing her broken heart. Funny incident caused by Aunt Will's Lovesick Cure, brought Jesse to meet Piney Baxley, a local physician's assistant, who apparently was the former Aunt Will's Lovesick Cur...more Jesse Winsloe came to Marrying Stone, Ozark, Arkansas with her heart broken. Her fiance dumped her and married another woman. She also lost her job as a teacher (in a school where her ex-fiance was the headmaster). She lived with her old Aunt Will, the former traditional-healer, who tried to help her fixing her broken heart. Funny incident caused by Aunt Will's Lovesick Cure, brought Jesse to meet Piney Baxley, a local physician's assistant, who apparently was the former Aunt Will's Lovesick Cure user too. Piney was a single father whose son, Tree, hooked up with Jesse's relative, Camryn. Jesse, then, had an affair with Piney.

Jesse never expected before that living in a small town could be this interesting. But what would Jesse do next, after she found out that her heart had already cured? Would she stay or go to her real life?

This book is such an entertaining and thoughtful book to read. I didn't expect that this book would be like this when I decided to request it in NetGalley. I thought it would be more romance but it turned out to be focusing more on family matters rather than romance. But not that it's bad. It's actually what makes me love this book more. The story wasn't shallow at all and the characters were lovable and unique. It really brings something new to me.

Aunt Will totally owned the book as everything is centered to her. She's such a quirky and smart old woman and I feel like I want her to be my grandma. If there is a Book Boyfriend List, now I want to make a Book Grandma List and put her name only on the list. It's good to see her relationship with all the other main characters: Jesse, Piney, Tree, and Camryn. Yes, I consider all 5 of them (including Aunt Will) as main characters of this book since all of their stories are the focus of this book. I also like Tree. He might be only 17 but he's so mature and I love him so much for being so responsible to his dad and also his girlfriend, Camryn. And the last basketball match scene.. OMG I can't love him more!!

This book has a great story, but I found that some part of it a bit boring. Sometimes I found so many descriptions that could be made shorter to avoid boredom, like about Jesse's daily activities in Onery Cabin and Camryn's anxiety. I also expected for more romance scene between the main characters, and at least a more romantic ending but I didn't get that in this book.

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Aug 20, 2012 Christa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ebook-arc

I was delighted to see that this book is tied to some of Morsi's early historicals. It was wonderful to be back in the setting of Marrying Stone, this time in contemporary days. I liked the set up for the story, with Jesse having been jilted for another woman by her fiance and Piney living alone for years after his wife left him. I thought that Jesse and Piney were meant for one another and enjoyed their interactions. I was saddened by the illness of Aunt Will, but really enjoyed the other aspec...more

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Mar 30, 2013 Rebekah rated it 4 of 5 stars

I wasn't sure if I would like this book or not, but after the first paragraph I was hooked. It was a smart, funny, sexy, touching book. The characters were complex, interesting, and realistic. I was afraid when the teenaged characters and their relationship showed up in the plot line that it would ruin the story between the main characters, but it did not. It was handled smartly, the younger characters weren't dumbed down or used as plot moppets to move the story itself along.
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Aug 20, 2012 Rebecca rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: netgalley, read-in-2012, review-copy

Jesse's boyfriend leaves her for another woman, and she loses her teaching job, so she decides to leave town for awhile. She ends up visiting Aunt Will in Arkansas. Aunt Will is the local "granny woman". She uses herbs to cure illnesses. Piney Baxley is the local doctor's assistant. He meets Jess when she goes with Aunt Will for a doctor's appointment. (view spoiler)

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Sep 06, 2012 Susan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary-romance

Sweet book, but the romance between Jesse and Piney seemed underdeveloped. There was the alleged conflict of Jesse eventually leaving town, but there was never any real crisis and while the Jesse and Piney both admitted to themselves that they were in love, I'm not sure they ever said the words out loud to each other! Relationship between Piney's teenage son, Tree, and his girlfriend Camryn was much more engaging.

I liked the way Morsi presented the Ozark lifestyle - neither glorified it nor moc...more

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Oct 14, 2012 Kim rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: sexy-romance, medical, contemporary-romance

Ok story. I like Piney a lot. He's a genuinely good guy that was dealt a shitty set of cards. Jess is.....egh I had a more difficult time getting in tune with her character. She seemed really weak willed and in need of people constantly guiding her. I would have liked her to find her independence and bask in it, grow as a woman and a person, before putting herself back in a relationship.

Aunt Will was a really "different" character. I have to say I thought she was really funny and enjoyed her unc...more

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Pamela Morsi is a USA Today, Waldenbooks, and Barnes & Noble bestselling author of romance. She broke into publishing in 1991 with Heaven Sent and has been gracing readers with at least a book a year ever since. Two of her novels, Courting Miss Hattie (1992) and Something Shady (1996), won the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award, the highest honor in romance publishing, and others have bee...more

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“You don’t want me to end up like you. I have to tell you, that’s always been kind of weird to me. I hope I end up like you. In fact, that’s the one goal that I’m really sure about. I want to be as much like you as possible.”

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“Accepting the world’s realities, even when you didn’t understand them, was a basic necessity of existence in Ozark life.” — 2 people liked it

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The Lovesick Cure (Marrying Stone #3)

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