Tracy’s review of Midnight Remedy by Eve Gaddy
Piper Stevenson’s mysterious “potion” cured one of his patients. Dr. Eric Chambers is determined to unravel the secret of her painful past. Can they heal each others hearts?
Dr. Eric Chambers is not a happy man. One of his patients who happens to be impotent drinks an “herbal remedy” that cures his problem. Piper is the one that gave the remedy to his patient’s wife and now Eric plans to confront her for trying to practice medicine without a license.
Piper is stunned and a bit ticked off herself when Eric comes barging into her greenhouse demanding to know what was in the remedy. The remedy wasn’t even for impotence is was an herbal remedy she gave the guys wife for dry skin! She’s not about to tell Eric anything as she wants nothing to do with any grandiose plans Dr. Eric and his friend Dr. Dave have with the ingredients if they do indeed work.
Eric is determined to get the information but he also finds himself incredibly attracted to Piper. He asks her to dinner telling himself that it’s just to get the ingredients but he’s totally lying to himself. Piper knows it’s probably not a good idea to go out with Eric but she’s just as attracted to him as he is to her. The pair start a close friendship that eventually turns toward the bedroom.
Unfortunately they’re both hiding some information. Eric is divorced, which is not a secret but when he comes clean about the reason Piper is spooked. Eric divorced his wife because she cheated on him and he hates infidelity. Piper’s 6 year old son is the product of a relationship with a man who lied to her and actually was married the whole time he was seeing her. That previous relationship became a nightmare and fodder for the media. Piper wants to tell Eric about the previous relationship but fears he’ll hate her when he finds out the details. Piper has to work through her fear and her past before the relationship can move forward and both of them need to learn to trust again.
This was a great little book. I loved the characters and their complexity. I think that the story itself was pretty straightforward but the characters made it so much more interesting because of their pasts. Gaddy really had both Eric and Piper growing personally by leaps and bounds in the book and facing a life that neither of them expected.
There were a couple of issues I had with the story as some things were unexplained. Like, why did the woman whose husband was impotent give her husband a dry skin remedy in a tea? That’s just something I would have asked right off the bat when I saw the couple next. Wouldn’t Piper want to know? Also in the book Piper’s son gets a possibly fatal virus. They mention that the virus was so virulent in Mexico that it killed many people but it’s never explained or even discussed where the heck the little boy got the virus or that there was an outbreak in their little town. I understand why the story went with the boy getting sick but for me personally I would have liked more explanation.
So in the end I thought this was a good book. A quick read and a cute romance with some angst but no so much that the story gets bogged down.
Rating: 3.75 out of 5
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(Midnight Remedy is a reprint and was originally released in 1997)
This book is available from Bell Bridge Books. You can buy it here or here in e-format.
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