Former marine Patrick MacNeil is a regular at the burn ward of the hospital, needing regular treatments for his young son's injuries in the fire that also killed his wife. Young burn surgeon Kate Sinclair love the spirit of the young MacNeil that the nurses called him "Iron Man", and felt attraction toward the dedicated young single father, but they both told themselves this cannot happen. Patrick wanted a family but cannot love another while his son still needs rehabilitation. Kate felt she cannot get involved with a patient's father as it breached professional boundaries...Both are denying themselves with a lot of angst. There's a secondary plot about how Kate's superior may be having problems either with himself or with Kate's performance, but it was pretty minimal threat. Most of the problems are each trying to rationalize their own fears and finally realizing how stupid they are. All in all, it can get emotional but it's not like super-passionate stuff.
Category: Contemporary
Primary Plot: Doctor and her patient's father fall in love, then both believe they acted out of bounds, and spends rest of the book circling each other pretending not to be in love until the end
Overall Rating: 3/5
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