Lindsay McKenna, Cara Summers and Laura Marie Altom Snowbound

Snowbound

Lindsay McKenna, Cara Summers and Laura Marie Altom

Harlequin, Jan 2008,

ISBN: 9780373837229

"A Healing Spirit" by Lindsay McKenna. Her helicopter was shot down while Marine pilot Tahcha Grant was flying a mission in Afghanistan; she was the only survivor. Suffering from survivor guilt and post-traumatic stress disorder, she returns home to the reservation where her nonagenarian granny sends her to the medicine man in training, Storm Black Horse, her teenage boyfriend.

"Aunt Delia's Legacy" by Cara Summers. After being away from home for almost a decade, Dr. Carly Waring returns for the reading of Aunt Delia's will. To her shock, Delia has left her everything as long as she shares it with math teacher Ren Maxwell, who Carly almost eloped with just before leaving town on her medical education odyssey.

"Caught by Surprise" by Laura Marie Altom. Recently divorced Tabby Summerwell was once the "It Girl" who could do anything. Now she feels as if the highlight film of her life occurred in high school. She came home to ski and heal mentally, but she broke her leg, which symbolizes what a failure she is. However, her spirits rise stratospherically when her high school boyfriend Brodie Kimball seems to want a second chance to rekindle as adults what they had as the teen It couple.

These three second chance at love tales are warm, well written, and as with Tabby will lift the spirits of the audience especially those suffering the wintry blues following the holiday season.

Harriet Klausner