Publisher: Harlequin Medical Romance
Series: Crocodile Creek 24-Hour Rescue

Lilian Darcy's Long Lost Son: Brand-New Family, the fourth book in the Crocodile Creek 24-Hour Rescue series is a brilliant finale to an incredible 4 book Harlequin Medical Romance series set during a cyclone. Weddings and disaster combine to present a romance of medical drama and emotion. Although this book works well as a stand alone, it is worth the time to hunt down the entire series.

Janey Stafford is on her way to Crocodile Creek to introduce her nephew to his father, Luke Bresciano. Her recently departed sister had nothing good to say about Luke, but then again her judgment about medicine wasn't always the greatest. Can Janey trust Luke? On the route to Crocodile Creek, with a cyclone approaching, they're involved in an accident. Janey is hospitalized, and her nephew goes missing. Luke stays by her bedside and Janey sees a side of Luke that just doesn't mesh with her sister's actions or words. Can Janey and Luke find the child and discover the reason by his current situation? What possible effect can her shocking news have on them all?

In Lilian Darcy's Long Lost Son: Brand-New Family, the reader finally hears the story of Felixx, the mysterious boy whose story gave emotional depth, intrigue and background in the three previous books. The romance and the characterization in this fourth book center around Felixx, a boy who is dealing with the death of his mother, a bus crash and the cyclone. Through Felixx, the reader sees the goodness in both Janey and Luke as they try to put his interests first. As they reach pout to him, they see new sides of each other.

The previous three books gave a reader the larger context of disaster preparedness and response as a background. Now Lilian Darcy narrows the focus to one little boy and the emotional toil on his life. As the hero and heroine reach out in compassion towards another, their passion for one another takes ahold. Lilian Darcy's romance includes an absolutely beautiful emotional scene about kids and wildlife animals, turning the vision to the role cyclones can play in nature and in relation to humans. Emotion, medical drama and compassion for others all mix to make this a romance one that will leave the reader quietly amazed at the fine mix of tenderness and rich depth.

Lilian Darcy's Long Lost Son: Brand-New Family is the embodiment of all that is so special and unique about the Harlequin Medical Romance line. The medical setting moves the romance between the hero and heroine outwards, expanding from passion towards compassion in a way that brings a happy ending to other lives. The medical scene can provoke sadness, suspenseful life and death situations here that leave a reader on the edge of the seat which is definitely the case in Long Lost Son: Brand-New Family. The medical setting also creates an atmosphere in which the professionalism and goodness of the characters come forth in a way that makes the romantic pull believable. Romance is a genre known for happy endings, but in a medical romance, bad things can happen on the way to the happy ending. Realism and romance here make a unique blend, a wonderful satisfying complement to the whole short romance genre. I find this line, this series, and this particular book addictive because nothing is predictable except the good feeling one gets at the end. You don't have to be a medical person to appreciate this book. I am SO not medical and squeamish as well but I loved this book.