Doctor Reagan Rosner loves her fast-paced life of practicing medicine in New York City’s busiest trauma center. Kind and confident, she’s taking her profession by storm—until a young girl’s accidental death leaves her shaken to her core. With her life a mess and her future uncertain, Reagan accepts a position as Head Physician for The Appalachia Project, an outreach program working with some of … of America’s poorest citizens.
Shane Harper, Ethan Cooke Security’s newest team member, has been assigned a three-month stint deep in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, and he’s not too happy about it. Guarding a pill safe in the middle of nowhere is boring as hell, but when he gets a look at his new roommate, the gorgeous Doctor Rosner, things start looking up.
Shane and Reagan encounter more than a few mishaps as they struggle to gain the trust of a reluctant community. They’re just starting to make headway when a man’s routine checkup exposes troubling secrets the town will do anything to keep hidden—even if that means murder.
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Reagan Rosner is a New York City doctor in need of a change when she signs up for the Appalachia Project providing health care for the poor residents of a small town in rural Kentucky. Shane Harris is a former US Marshall and newest addition to Ethan Cooke Security. He is the next person assigned for security duty in Kentucky and is not too excited. He and the beautiful doctor have a rough start but soon have their hands full with a difficult delivery of a baby girl and a scared 16 year old mother. Reagan and Shane take on parenting duties for the baby when the mother leaves suddenly. They also have their hands full when they are met with resistance to any help from the doctor. When the doctor makes a little head way and diagnoses a resident with black lung she is met with resistance from fellow doctors in the area and threats. This book is emotional and suspense filled. It has I’ll informed residents, poor people just trying to provide for their family, a coal mine with too many sick workers diagnosed with allergies and bronchitis, a cute ambitious teen mother finding her way, some hot steamy scenes and two people who have a connection but one is fighting it.
I really liked this eight installment of The Bodyguards of L.A. County series, though I cannot say it is one of my favourites.
Reagan is a physician who has decided to take off to Backwoods of Kentucky to work as a physician for the Appalachian Project. She has lost her confidence and faith in her ability after failing to make the right diagnosis on a little girl, which costs the girl her life. She decides to go to The Gap to restore her confidence and help those in need. However, as a small mining community, they do not take well to strangers and it is not long before Reagan’s life is a jeopardy, especially after trying to solve the mystery that has been in the making for years. Certain people in the community do not appreciate her poking her in their business and they will do anything to ensure that the mystery is never solved.
Shane is an employee of Ethan Cooke Security who is sent to The Gab to protect Reagan. He joined Ethan Cooke security after he left his previous job when his partner has betrayed Jerrod in Justice for Abby . I really loved how protective he was of Reagan, Jenny and Faith. Jenny is a young teenager who was pregnant with Faith and Reagan and Shane have helped to deliver the baby. They have become an adorable family of four until Shane has been replaced and had to leave.
I liked the plot, however I had major issues with the lack of communication between Reagan and Shane. It felt like neither of them were straight with each other, instead they made assumptions without getting their facts straight, which caused both of them unnecessary heartbreak. They wouldn’t have been apart for so long if only they talked to each other.
And can I just say just how much Amber is getting on my nerves?! First Stone and now she was making a pass at Shane. Find your own man Amber, these ones are taken!
Overall a good read and I cannot wait to see what the author has in store for us next.
Man, oh man, I read a lot of romantic suspense and Cate Beauman has to be up there with the best of them. Right off the bat, Cate has me teary eyed, with throat tightening emotions threatening to burst forth, when Reagan deals with a terrible loss in the Emergency Room.
That is how she ends up in the back woods of Black Bear Gap, a coal mining town in Kentucky, working as a doctor for The Appalachian Project. And…of course we must have security. Enter, Shane, a newbie at Ethan Cooke Security, there to protect her.
I love Cate Beauman’s characters, who often make cameo appearances in other’s stories, and I knew I would love Reagan and her friends too. I so look forward to seeing how she overcomes her hardships, meets the hunky guy who will fall in love with her and risk his life to protect her, and how she survives the danger that I am sure is coming her way.
Suspicion, prejudice, and oh so much more are standing in the way of Reagan being able to help the people with their medical needs. When Henry makes his evil entrance, it takes them a while, with the help of the Bodyguards in L A, to figure out what’s really going on.
I love that it takes place in the hills and it reads as if it could, would, or has been true. Innocent, hard working people are being treated wrong and someone comes in, risking everything, to make it right. Bullets fly, people die and I wonder where it will all end. Cate really got a lot of emotions going in me, because I feel this really did happen to workers in the mining industry and I see no reason why people are still crawling underground, digging out the last remnants of an obsolete form of energy…other than greed.
I love Reagan’s makeshift family and their storybook life, but when real life danger butts its ugly head in…my heart falls to my gut and I wonder where Cate is taking this. How could Shane…well…enter Chase…WTH Cate?????
Reagan’s Redemption is not your run of the mill romantic suspense novel…girl in trouble meets hunky guy, saves her, falls in love, rebuff each other, admit defeat, and, well, you know, they live happy ever after.
The mystery, suspense, and danger come in waves, at times like a tsunami, threatening to overwhelm me. I LOVE IT!!!!!
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Reagan’s Redemption by Cate Beauman.
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