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Book Review | The Doctor’s Honor (Back to the West #2) by Nerys Leigh

Mei Ling Chen is a woman disguised as a man working in a mining camp in 1859 California. Her brother is ill, so she escapes to try and find him some medicine. She arrives at the doctor’s house in Green Hill Creek, but is discovered by the doctor and his sister.

Noah is suspicious, but his sister, Lucy, persuades him to help the girl Noah assumes is a boy, and persuades Mei Ling to trust them. As Noah gets to know Mei Ling, he realises he is developing romantic feelings towards her … but how will a relationship between them ever work?

There were some insightful comments about racism.

Mei Ling isn’t immediately accepted in Green Hill Creek, and some of the residents think all Chinese women are prostitutes and attempt to treat her accordingly. Others merely want her out of town because she doesn’t fit in.

She is accepted once the people discover she is a trained midwife and that’s great, but wouldn’t it be better if we accepted people who are different to us based on who they are rather than based on what they can do? After all, God accepts us based on who we are … grace, not works.

Mei Ling also challenges the assumption that all Chinese are godless heathens. The reason she and her brother are in California at all is because her family is Christian and her parents were martyred for their faith.

As such, The Doctor’s Honor has all the strengths of Nerys Leigh’s previous books—excellent characters, solid plot, and plenty of humour to dispel the tension. But this goes a little deeper and challenges the reader’s beliefs about race and stereotypes.

Recommended for fans of Christian historical fiction.

About Nerys Leigh

Nerys LeighNerys Leigh writes thoroughly romantic Christian historical love stories. She loves heroes who are strong but sweet and heroines who are willing to fight for the life they want.

She’s from the UK, which you would think puts her in a unique position to not write about mail order brides in the American west, but the old adage of writing what you know has never appealed to her. She has an actual American read each book before publishing to make sure she hasn’t gone all English on it.

 

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About The Doctor’s Honor

Funny how quickly life can get complicated.

As the only doctor in the tiny frontier town of Green Hill Creek, Noah Wilson lives a quiet life with his sister, and he’s fine with that. Until a Chinese woman breaks into his home and changes everything.

Before he knows it, his sister is promising Mei Ling their help and he’s mounting daring rescues and fighting to save her brother’s life and…

…and falling for a woman who can’t ever be his.

Overnight, life goes from simple to very complicated indeed.

But perhaps complicated is just what Noah needs.

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The Blacksmith's Heart

Book Review | The Blacksmith’s Heart by Nerys Leigh

The Blacksmith’s Heart is the first book in Nerys Leigh’s Back to the West series, so you don’t need to have read any of her other books in order to enjoy this one. Having said that, if you have read any of her earlier Escape to the West mail order bride stories, you will recognise some of the characters in The Blacksmith’s Heart (even though the Escape to the West books are set around 15 years later than The Blacksmith’s Heart).

The Blacksmith’s Heart is the story of widower Peter Johnson, the blacksmith in Green Hill Creek, and father to ten-year-old Jesse. He’d never planned to marry again, but that was before Miss Malinda Wilson moved into town with her sister and brother, the new doctor. (I’m guessing they are the hero and heroine of the next two novels in the series, The Doctor’s Courtship and The Spinster’s Hope, both apparently coming in 2018).

Anyway, Peter isn’t looking for a wife, which is good because Malinda isn’t looking for a husband. Although Peter is handsome and smart and interesting and funny, with broad shoulders and brilliant blue eyes …

Okay, so this is a romance novel, which means we all know how it’s going to end. But the fun part is the journey, and it’s definitely fun. Peter has a disabled son, Jesse (who we later see in An Unexpected Groom). But right now Jesse is a mischievous ten-year-old who wants to ride and fish and pick blackberries … all the things a normal child would want to do.

It’s a great story, perfect for long summer days (if you’re Down Under, like me) or long winter nights (for the rest of you). Recommended for fans of Christian romance from authors such as Regina Jennings and Karen Witemeyer.

Thanks to the author for providing a free ebook for review.

About Nerys Leigh

Nerys LeighNerys Leigh writes thoroughly romantic Christian historical love stories. She loves heroes who are strong but sweet and heroines who are willing to fight for the life they want.

She’s from the UK, which you would think puts her in a unique position to not write about mail order brides in the American west, but the old adage of writing what you know has never appealed to her. She has an actual American read each book before publishing to make sure she hasn’t gone all English on it.

No One’s Bride is the first in the Escape to the West series which tells the stories of a group of women willing to travel across America to find happiness, and the men determined to win their hearts.

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About The Blacksmith’s Heart

Can true love strike twice in a lifetime?

Peter Johnson met the love of his life when he was nineteen. Three years later, she was gone, leaving him to raise their son alone. Knowing he would never love another woman the way he loved his wife.

But when a new doctor arrives in town ten years later, bringing with him his smart, beautiful, funny, opinionated sister, desires Peter never dreamed he’d feel again begin to surface.

Malinda Wilson, however, is fiercely independent and doesn’t want a husband. Which is good, because Peter doesn’t want another wife.

He’s almost sure of that.

Christian historical romance The Blacksmith’s Heart is the first in a prequel trilogy to the bestselling Escape to the West series. Lose yourself in the romance of the old west with this heart-warming, uplifting novella!

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You can read the introduction to The Blacksmith’s Heart below. If you like it, pop over to www.nerysleigh.com and download your free copy!