An American historical romance set in 1887.Mack Reagan’s been building things since he was old enough to hold a hammer. Designing and building a block of new storefronts for Clear Creek’s council’s Main Street project makes him a happy carpenter.But carpentry is forgotten when the new doctor arrives in Clear Creek, Kansas…because the doctor is a big and tall woman, matching his gigantic stature. gigantic stature.
Pansy Walline is right out of medical school and anxious to start her first job as a doctor for a Kansas frontier town. Of course, the town council who hired Doctor P.F. Walline doesn’t realize she’s a woman, but she’s confident she’ll earn their trust right away if the love-sick carpenter doesn’t get in her way.
What happens when the town draws a line between needs and wants, right and wrong, and Mack and Pansy get boxed in the middle of this construction mess? More than sawdust could ignite in the sparks which fly between these two normally calm people.
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Love at first sight! Only it’s one sided! I love how Mack drools over Pansy and follows her around like a lost pup! Can the mild mannered, sincere, sweet, hardworking man win her heart? I also loved the support and interaction at Hilda’s ranch, and the fragile Edna become the stalwart nurse when needed! A very enjoyable book with several laugh out loud moments!!
HE’D FOUND THE WOMAN WHO TIED HIS HEART, AND TONGUE, IN KNOTS
I enjoyed being back in Clear Creek, Kansas and another wonderful addition to the Grooms With Honor series. Each of these books will read as a stand-alone and even better when you read each of them, preferably in order. The Reagan family will become near and dear to your heart. This story will be about Mack Reagan and Dr. Pansy Walline. Is it love at first sight for Mack?
The year, 1887, and the story will have members of the town council to meet the train and welcome their new doctor to town, Dr. P. F. Walline. Mack will be there, along with his brother Cullen when the train arrives, but where is the doctor? When Mack sees a tall woman get off the train, he is dumbstruck by her and declares, “I swear she’ll be my wife as soon as I ask her.”
Dr. Pansy Walline had known she had a talent for healing and after the range wars, watching her father die from a gunshot wound, she knew she would become a doctor. For a woman to be over six-foot tall, and to be told she wasn’t pretty even as a child, she set her sights on medicine and building her career and had decided she would never marry.
“My father always told me I was too big and ugly for a man to love me, and I shouldn’t produce more like me. Marriage isn’t an option for me, so don’t get down on bended knee, Mack Reagan.”
The plot of the story will remind me of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, with the narrowminded attitude of a woman doctor. But the town of Clear Creek needed her and had offered her a five-year contract to come, and provided her with an office and apartment overhead. Nowhere in her contract did it ask or state the offer was only for a male doctor. Now, there is dissension because she isn’t a man and people want to run her out of town. She goes over and above what a male doctor would do for his patients, and they don’t even pay her.
With the town unfairly making changes in the contract, she will start sending out letters to find a new location. But while she is doing that, so is Mack, because if she rejects him, he can’t be here with her in the same town. And without patients, she could not survive.
“When you see the right woman for you, you’ll feel like you’ve been struck by lightning. She is the right woman, and I need to share my life with her.”
Will Pansy and Mack find happiness or will this be the end? Can he convince her that he can accept her as a wife, mother, and doctor to the town? When it comes to Mack’s parents, they are one of the greatest powers of persuasion this town has ever had, and they know what needs to happen.
“Your profession is ‘service to others,’ and I respect that. I know what it means because I’m a preacher’s kid. I didn’t always like it when my folks had to miss a school program or couldn’t take us fishing, but I learned how special their calling was.”
The story has a great cast of characters and many people from previous stories. It covers attitudes that were prevalent about women in medicine, no matter the need of the town. The Grooms With Honor series is a great way to see strong, forward-thinking women who make a difference. The story is a clean historical western romance.
Book four in Grooms with Honor series brings the reader Mack and Patsy’s tale. Mack takes one look at the tall new town doc and is determined to win her heart. Patsy has a fight being female, tall and the new doc for the town to find her place. Settle in to read the story of their journey while catching up with other residents in town. Can be read as a stand a lone but recommend all the books in this series!
Ebook from author’s copy with thanks. Opinions are entirely my own
Mack’s Care ( Grooms with Honor – Book 4) by Lind Hubalek was such an emotional book. I loved how Mack knew as soon as he laid eyes on Doc Pasney that she was the one for him. He really knew his own mind and heart. That he was willing to do whatever he had to do to make her his wife at a time when it was almost unheard of for a man to do any kind of “woman work” to taking steps to making sure there wouldn’t be any babies until they were both ready. It was almost unheard of back then for women to be doctors. She certainly had her work cut out for her when she arrived in Clear Creek. None of the town men wanted a woman doctor treating them. As I said this book was emotional, there is sickness and death, but also some sweet, funny scenes in this books. I so enjoyed going back to revisit and catch up with old favorite from the other Grooms with Honor characters and meeting new favorite. Me. Hubalek has done it again!
Mack’s Care is another wonderful book
by Linda Hubalek, in the Grooms of Honor series. It is a delightful, & touching story about Mack & Pansy. She is the town’s new Doctor. When Mack see’s Pansy for the first time, standing on the train platform, he knows she is the one.
Pansy tries everything she can,
to establish herself as the town’s
new Doctor. But, many people are oposed to her being a female Doctor. I loved this book, & really enjoyed reading it.
A MUST READ FOR EVERYONE!!!