Scent of Lilacs

Jane Bonander reaches out to readers hearts (Romantic Times) with wonderful tales that perfectly blend wild desire tender emotion and vivid sensuality. Now she whisks us to the California frontier where an old passion becomes a new problem. When Lexy Tate dreamed of practicing medicine she hadnt imagined setting up her practice in an abandoned brothel or delivering a calf in a ramshackle barn. But as one of the first woman doctors in America Lexy couldnt afford to be fussy especially with a young daughter to consider. Little Krista needed the warmth of the California sun for her health and Lexy was determined to make a home for the two of them on the California frontier. Lexy was prepared for hardship and difficult working conditions but she wasnt ready to meet Jake Westfield again. Four years earlier Jake had shown how little he cared for Lexy when he left her without giving her a chance to tell him she was bearing his child. Now faced with the man shed loved since she was a young girl Lexy knew that this time she could not afford to give in to the passion that still bound them. This time she had to make the right decision not just for herself but for her precious daughter....