Hearts of Seven Pines

When a health crisis and career problems threaten to strangle her, Kate Marchetti tries to hide out in the backwater of the rural community of Seven Pines. But she doesn't count on being the target of local interest, or the bull's eye of the persistent country charm of Dr. Mick Blackburn. Everywhere Kate turns, she finds Mick, the pieces of the Hearts of Seven Pines quilt, and local Seven Piners trying to convince her Seven Pines is the place to find a home and healing. ...
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When a health crisis and career problems threaten to strangle her, Kate Marchetti tries to hide out in the backwater of the rural community of Seven Pines. But she doesn't count on being the target of local interest, or the bull's eye of the persistent country charm of Dr. Mick Blackburn. Everywhere Kate turns, she finds Mick, the pieces of the Hearts of Seven Pines quilt, and local Seven Piners trying to convince her Seven Pines is the place to find a home and healing.

When the local tabloid, The Splinters, puts out a community call for matchmaking, and everyone from eight to eighty "helps" in Mick's courtship, Kate discovers her privacy being dragged through the muddy glamour of instant rural fame. Mick draws Kate into the sunny side of his life, but the crises of their two very-different worlds collide when her past and future come calling on the ice of Crystal Lake.

Each struggles with their fierce independence and their promises made to others. When Kate loses her voice, and an ice storm threatens to permanently separate them, both get a painful wake-up call to the cold reality of a successful life lived alone. Healing comes when both admit their damaged spirits can only find their hearts' desire as two hearts joined with the HEARTS OF SEVEN PINES community.