Barefoot in the Sun. Roxanne St. Claire. Grand Central Publishing. April 2013. 432 pp. hbk. ISBN #: 9781455508259.
Zoe
Tamarin has been on the run for years.
She believes her “Aunt Pasha” has saved her from an abusive father and
knows the true reason why they must keep moving from place to place – because
Aunt Pasha is wanted by the law. Now she
meets Oliver Bradbury when she shows up at his cancer clinic in Florida, a
place where they are using experimental treatment protocols to save the lives
of terminally ill cancer patients.
Oliver
lost the one true love of his life and only has an 8 year-old son whom he seems
to avoid all the time, working away his grief over his wife’s death. Oliver’s son, Evan, is a pip of a boy who has
a sharp tongue for almost everyone as he quickly picks up the “lines” all use
on him with strength but without much compassion or empathy. His Dad works himself silly and has little
time for his son.
Zoe
meets Evan and they click together immediately, having the same irreverent and
realistic sense of humor. When Zoe asks
Oliver’s help for Pasha who is very ill with cancer, we aren’t sure how that
will turn out as Pasha wants help without any hospital involvement. For she’s got a shocking secret that the
reader will not learn for quite a while.
Meanwhile, after much back and forth hassling arguments about her
medical condition, Pasha finally agrees to be treated by Dr. Oliver. Things
become intensely complicated for her when the law arrives and says she’s wanted
for murder!
As
the story continues, so does the hesitant care and attention Dr. Oliver and Zoe
begin to tentatively allow themselves to feel.
It’s definitely hair-raising for both and we are not sure if so much
resistance and fear can surmount the relationship that would so obviously
benefit both. They truly are hot for
each other. Can they surmount the
resistance that has them constantly thinking about immediately escaping or
completely and permanently embracing each other? Barefoot
in the Sun is a very good romance worth spending pleasurable hours
with. Nice job, Roxanne St. Claire!
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