Wearing scars from her past, both physical and emotional, Anne Lundstrom leaves her EMT work in Minneapolis for the safety and security of a small town in northern Minnesota, where she hopes to get hired at the local hospital. Noah Standing Bear (Ojibwa and Swede) is working to open a wilderness challenge summer camp for inner-city kids and must find a camp nurse in order to secure funding.

Rather a beach-read kind of a romance. Predictable. You know who will end up together; you're just along for the ride. And the ride took me through some seedy parts of inner-city Minneapolis, but some beautiful Lake Superior scenery, nicely described. The characters were believable, both their insecurities and their spiritual longings. It felt like Anne continued too angsty too long through the story, but I haven't been through what the character (nor her author) has been through, so perhaps I'm not the best judge of that. I enjoyed the story, and the setting, though probably not enough to seek out another in the series.

Contemporary Christian fiction is a genre I seldom read, so I'm unsure how to rate this. Certainly it is much better than the Grace Livingston Hills (which nostalgia won't allow me to turn loose of). If LT was capable of nuance, I would probably give it a rating of 3.25. ( )