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Sacred Trust (ER Trilogy #1)

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A fast moving novel, with a believable story line. Fun to read, but very thought provoking in the area of family values, also.

When Dr. Lukas Bower becomes the full time ER doctor in a small town, he is immediately plunged into hospital politics. One of the first things Dr. Bower does is follow procedure and report an accidental needle stick by Dr. Jarvis -- and makes an enemy. Throughout the rest of the book Dr. Jarvis causes trouble for the kindhearted Dr. Bower, while Dr. Bower continues to treat his patience with a great deal of wisdom and insight. I think this book has it all -- realistic action, a touch of romance, and characters we come to care about.

There's plenty of drama and just enough romance that both men and women will enjoy this fast-paced medical drama. The medical terminology is well-used and realistic, but what captured me most were the personalities of the characters. The authors have a way of making the reader care about emergency room patients we'd only met a page or two ago. Very well-drawn and real characters -- heroes and heroines, but very human too...people I could relate to. Best of all, there are two more books in the series!

I just finished reading Sacred Trust and was very impressed! The book has a great plot,is faced paced and makes you care about the characters. It protrays Christians in the medical profession in a very positive light and explores some of the issures they face. I highly reccommend it!

I read a lot of Christian books, but most of them are non-fiction. I'm very selective about the fiction I read - there's just not enough time to read all the good stuff out there! I used to enjoy reading Robin Cook's medical suspense books, so I was glad to see this series of three medical/suspense Christian novels.

This is the first of a series - the second is Solemn Oath and last is Silent Pledge. Reading them in order is highly recommended!

This wonderful series is centered around a small-town hospital emergency room in Missouri.

The medical parts ring true for a good reason - Hannah Alexander is a pen name for a husband/wife writing team and the husband is an ER physician! These books will appeal to both men and women, and contain suspense, drama, a little romance and a lot of inspiration. I became very attached to the characters of Lukas, Mercy, Clarence, Ivy, and many more. The story also paints a wonderful picture of God's forgiveness and grace in the character of Theodore and others' responses to him.

The only downside to these books is that there are only 3 of them and I've read them all...

Happy reading!

Hannah Alexander's "Sacred Trust" introduces us to Dr. Lucas Bower, a Christian doctor who is trying to start over in the small town of Knolls, Missouri in the Ozarks. He runs into problems however, as a envious doctor named Jarvis George has it in for Dr. Bower, and tries very hard to have him fired. Dr. George is a good example of what envy can do to a person. Dr. Bower also makes a few other powerful enemies by doing what he knows is right, including the drug seeking son of a prominent attorney. Dr. Bower is helped out by a sympathetic administor, and another doctor named Mercy Richmond, who is trying to get her daughter back from her alcoholic ex-husband who is also abusive. Alexander makes sure that we don't feel preached at, and Christians are portrayed realisticly, as Ivy and Dr. Bower vehementlyu disagree on the DNR issue, but share the same evangelistic belief. Very good fiction with little weakness.

I loved this book.

The characters are wonderful and will live in your heart long after you put the book down. Read the other two books in this series, too, which are equally as good.

I enjoyed the very human qualities of the characters -- they were vulnerable yet all had strengths sometimes they didn't even know they had. Even the Christian characters weren't perfect, but true-to-life, especially Dr. Bower whose endearing mishaps only added to the strength of his character.

Sometimes the middle section of a book sags, but that wasn't true with this book. It started out interesting and remained so throughout.

The one disappointment in the end is not knowing what becomes of Lukas's relationship with Mercy. You have to read the other two books to find out!

A thoroughly satisifying book with a strong (though not intrusive) spiritual message.

This Christian medical thriller is very realistically written (one of the authors is an M.D.) and probably will win readers over by not being overly preachy. A new doctor, Luke Bower, is hired to work in a small town hospital's ER full-time and discovers the typical small town mindset (distrust of strangers) as well as some unsettling secrets about the townspeople.

His love interest is local doctor Mercy Richmond, whose mother is a wealthy benefactress of the hospital where he works. The book touches on medical ethical issues ranging from child abuse to euthanasia and `do not rescusitate' orders to drug abuse, and the story benefits from showing how both Christians and non-Christians both act and react to these issues and the situations surrounding them.

The main villain of the story is sinful human nature (see 2 Timothy 3:1-5). There are many who fall victim to their baser desires, including Mercy's ex-husband, a raging alcoholic who beats their daughter and the chief of staff, who regularly abuses drugs. The plot involves Luke's slow acceptance into the community and how he overcomes the obstacles that lay in his path. That's not always compelling reading (Luke and Mercy's romance at times feels strained and out of place), but the realistically drawn characters will keep readers turning the pages.

This was my first read of a book by Hannah Alexander. I read a lot of Christian fiction and am often disappointed in a book's slow beginning. Not this book!! I was immediately taken in by the characters and their lives. All characters were believable and the dialouge was fantastic. I love reading good books...I got so caught up in this one, that I read it in just a couple of days. Then I was frustrated because it was over and I didn't have the next in the series.

I have found a new favorite in this writing team of Hannah Alexander and am anxious for the next in the series "Solemn Oath" to arrive in the mail.

I was pulled into the story from the first word. The writing is smooth, seamless. The characters are well developed and fully human. Careful attention to details. Spiritual insights weaved in with a natural rhythm. Can't wait to read the others in the series!