Farrah Rochon, Deliver Me

Deliver Me

Farrah Rochon

Leisure, Mar 2007, $6.99

ISBN 0843958626

Emergency room doctor Monica Gardner was already considering a change following the news broadcasts of what Katrina did to the Gulf, but Patrick Dangerfield and his lies made it easier for her to leave depression behind in St. Louis and start anew in New Orleans at Methodist Memorial. Her first day on the job starts with a fender bender and then a C-section emergency that has "Super-Doc" Eli Holmes demanding to know who she is and to get out that she was fired. A new emergency saves Eli from her wrath.

Administrator Dr. Slessinger gets Monica to join their charity board; of which Eli is a member too. They reach a truce and soon make a deal to pretend they are seeing one another in order to keep his family from setting him up on dates he does not want and to keep the male vultures from surrounding her with courtships she does not want. As they work together and spend some time away from the hospital together, they fall in love; however his relationships last a month and she still feels distrust towards males thanks to Dangerfield.

DELIVER ME is enhanced by the vivid descriptions of practicing medicine in post Katrina New Orleans; thus the delightful romance takes a back seat to the action of the emergency room. The lead couple is a fine matching of dedicated physicians wary of love while the romance of a secondary couple adds depth to a loaded storyline. Elementary my dear readers, as Farrah Rochon captures the city inside her fabulous contemporary medical romance with hopefully more Holmesian sibling tales to follow.

Harriet Klausner