Patches of Red

Patches of Red He's handsome but can't even remember her name. She's pretty, but her finickiness drives him crazy. After twenty years as a nurse practitioner in the same practice, Ellie Wentz gives notice. When office politics interferes with her job, it's time to get a new one. When her son and daughter-in-law buy her house and she has sold and given away everything else that's not attached to her heartstrings, she packs up what remains and goes to Harper Loch to spend time with her best friend. She'll decide what to do and where to go from there. No matter how much the handsome friend of her friends annoys her. Jesse Grant comes to Harper Loch to help out his niece for a few weeks. He's retired from the navy, his boys are grown, and he's at loose ends. But he really likes the little lake community in Michigan-he thinks he might stay. Long widowed, he has no interest in getting married again, and neither does the redhead he can't seem to avoid. And yet ...