Scent of Lilacs by Jane Bonander

Scent of Lilacs ('98) is a book I wonder if I would have enjoyed more if I hadn't read it right after Wild Heart. beautiful sister - check (although selfish this time not slutty) secret baby - check (although it really is hers this time) gosh I love him I want him I can't touch him - check (this time without tits, well you know...) The hero, Jake, thinks he is gonna die young because his father and grandfather did. Heart thing... Jake is a dr as is our hero, Lexy Tate. Or at least she is trying to be, the fact that it is the 1890s and she is female sort of screws with her want. The book starts with Jake losing a mother giving birth and the daughter and having to tell the father he just lost his family. So jake is upset and goes to lexy - his friend. Jake had/has a thing for her sister, megan, who has married his best friend max. Jake and Lexy do the comfort sex thing - and guess what he says when he hits the high note. Come on you can guess... I will give you a hint it is a name and it isn't lexy. I wasn't really sure how the book was going to recover from that. Cuz, well, if I am ever in bed with a man and he calls out a name not mine, he is so out of there. But hey I read stories with virgins and people that get married without having sex first and I am not doing that either so I kept reading. Four years later lexy decides to move west due to her daughter having weak lungs and the weather being better for her than in Rhode Island. She goes to her sister and her husband, which works out great cuz her sissy is preggers. Of course Jake is the dr at the fort. Now Jake did try to see Lexy before he tucked tail and ran - he asked Ben a guy who was trying to get Lexy to marry him and who didn't like Jake to set up a meeting. yeah that was what I thought Ben said Lexy wouldn't do it and oh yeah wish us happy cuz I asked her to marry me. Ben was a lying, in case you didn't know that. Well he asked but whatever. I had a hard time buying a pregnant, unmarried woman becoming a dr in 1890something and the story drags in parts. But all in all it is an ok read. And there are no evol gays in this one.