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The Mounties #1
The First Time
UNEXPECTED TEMPTATION
Freshly graduated from medical school and eager to bury his sorrow over a tragedy in his past, Colin Fraser impulsively joined the Northwest Mounted Police. Now, a nighttime raid by his detachment on a large bootleg whiskey operation has netted more than gallons of liquor. The patrol has brought back a desperately ill bootlegger--and a young woman no less! Even as he tenderly nurses her back to health, beautiful, defiant Maggie Hayes, who is as wild and untamed as the province itself, stubbornly resists his efforts to teach her a new way of life. Despite himself, Colin is falling in love with his patient... because Maggie has found a way to heal the healer's heart.
Freshly graduated from medical school and eager to bury his sorrow over a tragedy in his past, Colin Fraser impulsively joined the Northwest Mounted Police. Now, a nighttime raid by his detachment on a large bootleg whiskey operation has netted more than gallons of liquor. The patrol has brought back a desperately ill bootlegger--and a young woman no less! Even as he tenderly nurses her back to health, beautiful, defiant Maggie Hayes, who is as wild and untamed as the province itself, stubbornly resists his efforts to teach her a new way of life. Despite himself, Colin is falling in love with his patient... because Maggie has found a way to heal the healer's heart.
- GenresRomanceHistorical
320 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2000
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Kathryn Fox
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May 28, 2017
Colin Fraser has just finished medical school in Edinburgh and is planning to be married in days before returning to Canada. While on a ride with his fiance, she's thrown from her horse and instantly killed, and Colin can't help her.
He returns to Canada, not to practice medicine and impulsively joins the new Northwest Mounted Police. He's sent to the Northwest Territories to help stop the bootlegging to the Indians. He meets and heals Maggie Hayes, daughter of a bootlegger and complete opposite of his former fiance, but they fall in love anyway. Eventually they overcome their pasts to find a future.
Simplified ending to the bootlegging problem. "Sweet" story.
He returns to Canada, not to practice medicine and impulsively joins the new Northwest Mounted Police. He's sent to the Northwest Territories to help stop the bootlegging to the Indians. He meets and heals Maggie Hayes, daughter of a bootlegger and complete opposite of his former fiance, but they fall in love anyway. Eventually they overcome their pasts to find a future.
Simplified ending to the bootlegging problem. "Sweet" story.
April 7, 2015
Having never read anything by this author I liked her first story in a series about the Northwest Mounted Police. Colin Fraser was a broken man. He lost his first love in an accident and thought he would never find anyone else. A doctor by trade he was meant to heal but who would take care of him? He joined the Mounties to forget.
Instead he met Maggie Hayes who was as different from his former fiancee as could be. Her father had an illegal business in the whiskey trade. She was raised without a mother and was wild. She was limited in her experience with life and love. Her dialect bordered on corny but I enjoyed her companionship with Colin. Their story was very much about 'opposites attract'.
Despite themselves, they slowly fall in love. Their story is one of warmth and forgiveness.. Not perfect by any means, I enjoyed it for what it was: a romance about two flawed characters who show each other kindness and affection.
Instead he met Maggie Hayes who was as different from his former fiancee as could be. Her father had an illegal business in the whiskey trade. She was raised without a mother and was wild. She was limited in her experience with life and love. Her dialect bordered on corny but I enjoyed her companionship with Colin. Their story was very much about 'opposites attract'.
Despite themselves, they slowly fall in love. Their story is one of warmth and forgiveness.. Not perfect by any means, I enjoyed it for what it was: a romance about two flawed characters who show each other kindness and affection.
July 19, 2013
Overall I liked the book. I liked Colin's story of how he found love again after his tragic loss. The only complaint from me is I felt the end of the story was a bit rushed.
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