Book 9John Taylor leaves Alaska and moves back to Sweet Water after having an accident with his dog sled while training for the Iditarod. With his ankle in a cast and having a very heavy heart, he returns to his hometown of Sweet Water, Michigan. He’s decided to give up his passion of racing, but his dreams can never be forgotten. He meets the town’s new doctor and her son, and he’s faced with … faced with more difficult decisions.
Adelaide (Addey) Blickensderfer is a doctor and divorcee and Sweet Water’s new doctor. She wants to start over in a new town with her teenage son. However, right away her sons gets expelled from school. The people in the little town of Sweet Water, Michigan, are gossipy. Before she knows it, she’s shunned because of her son’s troubled past. Then she meets John Taylor, a musher who takes her son under his wing and teaches him to work with the sled dogs as part of the boy’s community service.
Can a man with the call of the wild in his heart put down roots with a woman who needs him, when all he wants to do is run?
The Taylor Twelve: Sons of a preacher but far from saints, these men are nothing but trouble!
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This was a wonderful book. John has a tendency to make bad decisions, and as a musher he can’t afford to risk the lives of his dogs. When he is caught out in a whiteout, he knows he must return ho,e as quickly as possible to prevent injury to his sled dogs. He makes the decision to take a precariously dangerous route home and not only loses many of his dogs, he almost loses his life. He is rescued by his business partner, and after some healing of a broken foot, he decides to drop out of the Iditarod and return to his family in Sweetwater. He is heartbroken to have lost his dream.
Addey is a divorced doctor who is raising a troublesome son, Garreth, who decides to start a fight with the sheriff’s son at school. The boy’s reputation spreads like wildfire, and Addey finds that nobody wants to associate with her, much less use her services.
John arrives back at Sweetwater during a family cookout, and Addey has been invited since she is renting a cabin from John’s brother, Thomas. He is immediately attracted to her and decides to do whatever he can to get her attention. But is he biting off more than he can chew with her having a problem child? How will the new doctor in town earn the respect of the residents of this small community?
The Taylor brothers of Sweetwater are falling like ninepins, this time it is John’s turn to fall in love. A tragic accident brings John back to his hometown with a broken ankle, where he meets the town’s new and beautiful doctor and her troubled teenage son. When community service is mandated due to Gareth fighting at school, John takes the boy on to help him with his dogs – it doesn’t hurt that this enables him to get closer to Addey.
A more unusual romance than the norm, focusing as it does on sled dogs and mushing, which I very much enjoyed learning about.
John lived in Alaska and worked with his sled dogs. When he has an accident that looses some of his dogs and breaks his leg, he comes home to Sweet Water.
Can he deal with the new dr in SweetWater or is she going to make him regret coming home
this book made me cry at the beginning, because of John wanting to win a race he makes a bad decision that cost him part of his dogs and almost died himself, this is a mistake that he has to live with, but he learns from him and it teaches him there is more important things then winning a race. moving back where he grew up to be close to his family. having 11 brothers, their wives, children and grandkids. he meets Adelaide, a women that moved there to give her son a new start. her son is a trouble child and John helps he get his anger under control and shows him love. What will happen when they get together and will dog racing be something in the future plans. when something bad happen that might cost a life will it be to much for John to handle or will he be able to over come his fear. I love this book very much and it is a great read, yes there is mistakes made but its human mistakes that is made in real life. laughs love and tears but i could not put this book down.