Review: Choices of the Heart by Sarah M. Eden

My rating: 4 stars / I really liked it

Synopsis

The paths of life that brought them together are destined to tear them apart.

Burke Jones began his life as a nameless orphan, dreaming of one day being a renowned doctor with a home and family to call his own. Sophie Kingston, daughter of an influential East Coast family, was destined to be an important and beloved part of Baltimore Society.

Life has not gone quite as either planned.

Now living in the home of a family friend, Sophie joins the lady on a journey to the tiny town of Hope Springs in Wyoming Territory. It is unlike any place she’s ever known. And the resident doctor is a mystery as well. Burke knows he isn’t the success he’d always imagined he would be, and seeing it through the eyes of this newly arrived Society lady only drives that home.

As Hope Springs begins to weave its magic, Sophie discovers more than she’d ever imagined, in both the town and its doctor. And Burke, who has always guarded his heart, begins to wonder if there might be more to life than he has previously imagined.

Their futures, however, do not lie along the same path or in the same destinations. Fate has once again proven unkind.

Can Hope Springs work yet another miracle?

My Review

Hope Springs is full of wonderful characters that are added with each book in the series. Although there are plenty of scenes with the O'Connor and Archer family members, this addition also focuses on two newcomers to the town, paths crossing but each with a future that continues on in different directions. Burke and Sophie have a rocky beginning, but the special qualities of Hope Springs begin to transform their perspective and they let down their guard, leading to a lovely friendship. I missed the strength of romantic chemistry that I usually find in this author's stories, and I wonder if the large cast of community members and the focus on some subplots distracted me from connecting with the emotions of Burke and Sophie. I'm definitely looking forward to a continuation of Finbar O'Connnor and Emma Archer's story. 

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