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    Be My Valentine?: A Rosewood Short
    Be My Valentine?: A Rosewood Short
    Be My Valentine?: A Rosewood Short
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    Be My Valentine?: A Rosewood Short

    By Susan Lute

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    Go on a couple of dates with Doc Michaels and you'll find true love with someone else.

    Dr. Gavin Michaels has somehow turned into the town matchmaker. Now it's his turn. The first step in his grand scheme is to sell his practice and take a teaching position at the Health Sciences University in nearby Portland. But Rosewood has other plans for his heart—in the form of a vulnerable woman who needs more from him than to buy his practice.

    On the run from the memory of an abusive marriage, newly widowed Dr. Vivan Buchanan is looking for a place to lick her wounds and start over. Not just for herself, but for her step-daughter and unborn child. Landing in Rosewood, Oregon on Valentine's Day, she finds lodging at Irene's Boarding House. But can the lover's holiday, a new practice, and a man unlike her late husband open her heart to the possibilities of trust and love one more time?

    Heartwarming stories about family...community...and the journey home

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSusan Lute
    Release dateFeb 2, 2016
    ISBN9780990960782
    Be My Valentine?: A Rosewood Short

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      Be My Valentine? - Susan Lute

      Be My Valentine?

      Susan Lute

      Crazy Hair Publishing

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Epilogue

      About the Author

      Thank You!

      Other Books By Susan Lute

      Sneak Peek!

      Be My Valentine?

      Copyright © 2016 by Susan Lute

      Cover by The Killion Group, Inc.

      Electronic Publication February 2016

      ISBN: 9780990960782

      All rights are reserved, including the right to reproduce, distribute, or transmit in any form or by any means without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information regarding subsidiary rights, please contact the publisher.

      Published by Susan Lute

      Crazy Hair Publishing

      Portland, Oregon

      www.SusanLute.com

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are product of the author’s imagination or have been used fictionally and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locale or organizations is entirely coincidental.

      Dedicated to those who are willing to take second chances.

      Chapter One

      Driving across the country had not given her the escape she'd hoped for from the torturous sense of failure.

      Dr. Vivian Buchanan knew what she was doing. Theoretically understood it. She was on the run because her husband's death in a plane crash should have left her feeling something other than the incredible sense of relief coursing through her veins. But it hadn't.

      Wondering about the ad from one of her medical journals while she'd stood at Brock's graveside had gotten her through the crush of media and mourners she'd happily left behind. Practice for sale. Seeking Physician for established rural Family Practice in beautiful Rosewood, Oregon.

      For a while she'd been vaguely curious about getting back into medicine, but had eventually discarded the idea. She didn't have experience in rural medicine, so the persistent idea that she should look into the country practice wasn't practical. But, the spark for getting as far from the fishbowl of her former life as possible was born. And even though the thought of making such a drastic change was more than a little daunting, in the end, it was either find a better life, or bury herself in the lie of being Brock's grieving widow.

      So she'd left behind everything she'd known for the last three years, taking only the essentials—her step-daughter Jamie, and her unborn baby. But it turned out the West Coast was not far enough. And her last hope for peace was an imaginary house on a cliff overlooking the Pacific ocean. The little town she'd just driven into, perched in the foothills of Mt. Hood, one-hundred and twenty-three miles from Astoria was not that place.

      Still, Main Street, Rosewood, Oregon, welcomed them, easing her pent up anxiety. Cherry trees flowered pink petals in the late winter sunshine. Quaint little shops lining both sides of the wide street, with parking angled in instead of along the curbside, advertised Valentine's Day.

      Of course. It was two days before the holiday.

      A cold shiver ran down her back. The red and pink hearts promised love would last forever, a fairy-tale told to gullible young girls who believed romance was all hearts and flowers. Thanks to Brock, she'd grown up and knew the truth. There was no such thing as innocent, fairy-tale love.

      She stretched across the leather seat to wake Jamie.

      That Rosewood

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