GRACE COLEBROOK HAS A WAY ABOUT HER
THAT JACK BERENGER CAN’T FORGET. . . .
If there’s one thing Grace Colebrook cannot tolerate, it’s hysterics. So when her fiancé betrays her on their wedding day, she refuses to make a scene. She simply walks away—straight into the arms of a powerful stranger. The morning after, regrets fly. But life gets truly complicated when it turns out that the man lives in the apartment below hers.
Legendary ER doctor Jack Berenger is a man used to getting what he wants. And he doesn’t want Grace Colebrook—or so he tells himself when he can’t get her out of his mind. She’s prim, passionate, and unpredictable, a far cry from the ice queens who usually catch his eye. But most of all, she breaks through the hard shell he has built around himself . . . filling him with a burning hunger to possess her.
At once deeply moving and wildly romantic, two unforgettable people find each other in a world turned upside-down. Now Jack has one final chance to open his heart and prove he can be the sort of man a woman like Grace could love. . . .
From Publishers Weekly
Manhattan trauma surgeon Jack Berenger, the hero of Linda Francis Lee's The Ways of Grace, is a poor imitation of ER's Doug Ross, but dippy Grace Colebrook falls for his brooding charm anyway. Shortly after running out on her own wedding, Grace lands in bed with Jack, her new neighbor. Filled with regret the next morning, she vows to avoid him, but when she loses her job, she seeks solace in his arms once again. Their relationship continues in this manner for much of the novel even though it's never clear why Jack is drawn to the addlebrained Grace in the first place. Cliched hospital scenes, which feature Jack pulling patients back from near death, do little to enhance the story, but Ruth, Grace's young charge, adds humor and heart to Lee's (Nightingale's Gate) trite tale.
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From Booklist
It's a cold, deserted winter night when, restless and edgy, a man walks to his window and sees a woman sitting on a bench in her bridal gown, picking the petals off her bouquet. To his surprise, he finds himself bringing her a coat. Irresistibly drawn to each other, they barely make it back to his apartment before they end up on the dining room table. So begins the funny and moving story of Jack Berenger and Grace Colebrook. Jack can't get her out of his mind, and figures he'll never see her again. Grace can't get Jack out of her mind, but her recent behavior is not how she conducts her life, and she hopes never to see him again, except that he turns out to be her new neighbor. As Lee expertly reveals the personal issues that make Jack and Grace kindred spirits, she creates two of the most lovable and convincing characters to appear in recent romances. Maria Hatton
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