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Texas Healer Pb (Historical Romance)

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This story seems to be a follow-on to at least one other story in a series, but not enough backstory is given to really understand what went on before the events this story portrays. The book does stand on its own, so it wasn't a big problem. The book was good enough to keep my attention, even tho the writing isn't stellar.

Texas Healer is about Dan Conway, who is returning to his family ranch in Texas after spending some years in Boston at Harvard Medical School. He is now a doctor and is trying to figure out what he wants to do to make a difference, while keeping one step ahead of a tragedy he's left behind in Boston. He is waylaid by a gang of buffalo hunters, rescues a young Comanche girl, is injured in the get-away and finds himself in the Comanche camp where he is taken care of by the chief's sister, Morning Light. The rest, as they say, is history, and while predictable, it's a good story, especially the parts where the writer attempts to deal with the plight of the Comanches as they are being forced off their ancestral lands and made to become captives on the reservations.

I like books with a medical theme, and while this one is about a doctor, it doesn't really deal too much with the doctor practicing much medicine. If you like historial westerns that read quick and deliver a solid good ending, then you'll like this one. If you like lots of medicine in your doctor stories, this one may not satisfy.