To Save This Child

Rating:
Summary: Very highly recommended
Review: Every spring Dr. Jason Bridges closes his office for three weeks, heading to the remote jungles of Chiapas, Mexico where he offers his medical skills to the natives. Despite the hectic schedule and primitive conditions, Jason achieves something akin to redemption in his service to these needy people. Through the years of service, his staff has become as hooked on the experience as the doctor himself, and none of them ever want to leave. But when a last minute medical emergency sidelines his translator, Jason turns unexpectedly to pharmaceutical representative Kendal Collins for help.

During the lonely year since Phillip dumped her, Kendal has gone from top earning drug rep to the bottom of the heap. Without Phillips added income, her lifestyle has become too expensive to afford, and pity parties an occasional necessity. Determined to do anything to revitalize her flagging career, Kendal agrees to provide her translation skills in return for the opportunity to prove the worth of her company's pharmaceuticals. With his medical reputation, Jason's switch her company's drugs assures Kendal the career boost she needs. The last thing she expects is fall in love with a child in Mexico, let alone the doctor who operates on him.

TO SAVE THIS CHILD almost feels like it was placed in the wrong category with its political intrigue, but its heart felt emotions places it squarely in the Superromance series. This powerful medical romance leads Jason and Kedal not only through the dangers of a jungle but also the challenging terrain of the heart. Jason's determination to remain emotional distance cannot endure the onslaught of the intriguing Kendal. The descriptions of the conditions of Chiapas, Mexico and the necessity of drawing lots for medical care provides both a disturbing and a poignant background that lingers in the imagination long after the last page is turned. Powerfully rendered and impossible to put down, TO SAVE THIS CHILD comes very highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: warm contemporary tale
Review: Though his practice is in Oklahoma City, Dr. Jason Bridges makes trips to Chiapas, Mexico to provide medical assistance to the isolated locals. This year his nurse Kathy Martinez cannot make the trip due to her own medical needs, but obtains an able replacement, Kendal Collins. Jason warns Kendal that she must not become emotionally attached to any of the natives; she understands his caution and includes her new employer too.

However that proves easier said than done when Kendal meets two-year-old orphan Miguel. She takes full responsibility for the boy and decides to move heaven, earth and two governments so that she can raise him as her son. Jason finds himself failing to heed his own advice when he too falls in love. He wants to be at Kendal's side raising Miguel.

TO SAVE THIS CHILD is an intriguing medical romance with a side dish of flying adventure that is at its best when the plot furbishes insight into the courageous Doctors Without Borders giving medical care to the remote and needy. The story line is fun to follow especially when health care is the center of the plot as it is for the most part. Though the plane incident that sandwiches the adventure seems unnecessary, fans of medical romance will appreciate this warm contemporary tale.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: warm contemporary tale
Review: Though his practice is in Oklahoma City, Dr. Jason Bridges makes trips to Chiapas, Mexico to provide medical assistance to the isolated locals. This year his nurse Kathy Martinez cannot make the trip due to her own medical needs, but obtains an able replacement, Kendal Collins. Jason warns Kendal that she must not become emotionally attached to any of the natives; she understands his caution and includes her new employer too.

However that proves easier said than done when Kendal meets two-year-old orphan Miguel. She takes full responsibility for the boy and decides to move heaven, earth and two governments so that she can raise him as her son. Jason finds himself failing to heed his own advice when he too falls in love. He wants to be at Kendal's side raising Miguel.

TO SAVE THIS CHILD is an intriguing medical romance with a side dish of flying adventure that is at its best when the plot furbishes insight into the courageous Doctors Without Borders giving medical care to the remote and needy. The story line is fun to follow especially when health care is the center of the plot as it is for the most part. Though the plane incident that sandwiches the adventure seems unnecessary, fans of medical romance will appreciate this warm contemporary tale.

Harriet Klausner