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THE DOCTOR DELIVERS
Janice MacDonald
Harlequin SuperRomance, May 2002, $4.99, 299 pp.
ISBN: 0373710607
Western Hospital public relations specialist Catherine Prentice feels the world is earthquaking with her at the epicenter. Her former husband plans to gain custody of their two children though he spoils them when they stay with him and his new wife. At work, her boss implies that if she fails to gain the cooperation of difficult (except to his little patients) Neonatologist Dr. Martin Connaghton to appear on a TV show, her probation will end with her release.

On the highway, Martin stops to help Rita Hodge give birth to triplets that make them media darlings. All three babies are premature births but the last one born Holly is struggling to survive. Soon the press phobic Martin finds himself in the middle of a medical debate played out in public with only Catherine, risking all, on his side.

Janice MacDonald delivers a strong medical romance that provides no anesthesia to the reader as it focuses on difficult dilemmas facing modern healers. The story line is filled with too much angst and plenty of sadness as little Holly struggles for life. Though Catherine is a great character struggling with titanic woes, her problems pale next to those of Holly. Janice MacDonald furbishes tearjerker that only lacks an occasional breath from its many characters in turmoil.

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