A Borrowed Dream by Amanda Cabot

Catherine Whitfield is sure that she will never again be able to trust anyone in the medical profession after the town doctor's excessive bleeding treatments killed her mother. Despite her loneliness and her broken heart, she carries bravely on as Cimarron Creek's dutiful schoolteacher, resigned to a life without love or family, a life where dreams rarely come true.

Austin Goddard is a newcomer to Cimarron Creek. Posing as a rancher, he fled to Texas to protect his daughter from a dangerous criminal. He's managed to keep his past as a surgeon a secret. But when Catherine Whitfield captures his heart, he wonders how long he will be able to keep up the charade.

With a deft hand, Amanda Cabot teases out the strands of love, deception, and redemption in this charming tale of dreams deferred and hopes becoming reality.

I enjoyed reading this book.  I didn't realize that plastic surgery had been around that long.  We take our modern medicine for granted not realizing what was acceptable 100 years ago could kill you. 

Catherine did have a legitimate reason for distrusting doctors.   So I can see why Austin would hesitate to tell her he was a doctor.  Let alone that if it got out him and his daughter would be killed.

I enjoyed reading this book.  It wasn't an edge of your seat book.  But still had mystery to it.  I would recommend this book.

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