Single Dad, Nurse Bride
October 12, 2008
Single Dad, Nurse Bride
Wanted: Mother for young twin girls!
Dangerously handsome Dr. Dane Hendricks certainly isn’t nurse Rikki Johansen’s usual type. For one thing, she thinks he’s arrogant and overbearing, and for another, he assumed she was scatterbrained and incapable of making good decisions. So why is he so adamant about taking her on a date?
Rikki soon discovers that Dr. Dane is actually a kind and sensitive dad, and, like her, he’s one of life’s survivors. A foster mother herself, Rikki knows she can bring Dane’s adorable twin girls — and their gorgeous dad — the happiness they deserve.
Comments
jenny
That’s it: as far as dating prospects, we’re going all nurses, all the time.
You gorgeous dads, you survivors— though at first you may seem arrogant and overbearing —deserve some serious happiness. As do your adorable girls.
I do, however, have a difficult time picturing you being “adamant” about taking ANYONE on a date…
misteele
Grettir, I know that, as curator of this unrivaled collection, you have a particularized interest in the formulaic nature of the nurse book series. I have discerned from your writings on the subject that you are an ardent student of the contrapuntal “theme and variations” in the collection as a whole.
I must therefore congratulate you on this latest acquisition. It seems you have taken possession of a true marvel of the genre(more like care and custody really, for can anyone truly “own” or “possess” a nurse book? they are ours but for a moment; they belong to forever).
“Single Dad, Nurse Bride” appears to be the apex of the postmodern deconstructionist nurse book oeuvre. For here, the title conveys the entire plot. It is so elegant in its simplicity. It might be our best example of nurse haiku. One might ask, “ok, we can see that the jacket summary fleshes out the title a bit, but why write the other pages after that?” Scholars will continue to debate the question, indeed. While some see the pages after the title as superfluity, diluting the purity and power of the title’s impact, the true student finds herself again immersed: awash in character, theme, and craft.
That this creation has found in you its tender guardian, we can only be humbly grateful. Congratulations.
Rob
Excuse me for butting in - just wanted to say I love your Halloween costume idea (on Twitter)!