Sweet Everlasting by Patricia Gaffney,

Book description: Carrie Wiggins is as shy as she is stunningly beautiful. But the devastating secret that shattered her girlhood has left her terrified of the very love she desperately longs for. Only in the wild beauty of the mountain does she feel safe from the feelings she stirs in men and the cruel mockery of Wayne’s Crossing’s villagers.

Handsome, aristocratic Tyler Wilkes has turned his back on social privilege and professional honors to ste up a medical practice in the rural turn-of-the-century town of Wayne’s Crossing, Pennsylvania. There, serving those who need him the most, he hopes to forget the bitter memories and weariness that haunt his days.

Chance brings the sophisticated doctor and this fawnlike mountain girl together. But something as strong as fate breaks through the barriers of birth and breeding, pride and fear, which keep them apart...as each seeks to heal the other’s wounds with a passion neither can deny and all the odds against them cannot defeat...

Review: I loved this one. I was emotionally involved with these characters through out the entire book. The book seems like it could be overly sappy but it isn’t. Carrie seems like she’s going to be too perfect to be likeable but I liked her a whole lot. The book manages to deal with rape (an issue I usually avoid like the plague) in a non explicit way without glossing over it. There’s so much in this book that usually doesn’t work for me but works perfectly here. I’ll remember this one for a long time. I recommend this to all romance fans.

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