title: Blessings
author: Richer, Lois
description: A thriving medical practice and three rambunctious daughters have Joshua Darling looking heavenward for help. The harried widower's prayers are answered when a young surgeon accepts a temporary position in his small-town practice. Soon the lady doctor fills more than Joshua's need for a partner. She wins the devotion of his patients and his family...but can she heal his wary heart, as well?
  
  When Nicole Brandt sets out her shingle in tiny Blessing, Colorado, her dreams for the future change. Finding a new purpose, Nicole helps to restore a struggling single dad's faith and his ability to love. Now she must discover her own destiny and fight for the life of the man she has grown to love....
  
  Blessings in Disguise series:  Book 1 of 3