Title: His Touch
Series: Summer in New York #1
Author: Patty Blount
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: June 30, 2015
Publisher: Tule Publishing, Holiday Books
My Rating: 5 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:
When a surly paramedic finds Kara Larsen‘s lost toddler, only to berate her for failing to mind her child, Kara is embarrassed and relieved she’ll never have to deal with that jerk again. Doesn’t he know being a single mom is a lot harder than it looks?! But when baby Nadia has trouble breathing one night, Kara’s frantic 911 call brings that same jerk right to her door…
NYFD paramedic Reid Bennett has a compulsion to help frantic parents. But after the way he over-reacted to the beautiful woman in the department store that day, she wants nothing to do with him. But it’s not his fault he keeps running into her all over the city…
When Kara bumps into Reid for the third time in a week, she can’t help but wonder if the mom she lost in 2001 is playing matchmaker. As Kara and Reid form a cautious friendship, he quickly becomes baby Nadia’s favorite person. But Reid has no interest in long-term commitment, or so he thought. So when Nadia’s father calls out of the blue and Kara agrees to see him, Reid realizes he has some triage to do if he hopes to keep his girls.
Read on for my thoughts on His Touch. No true spoilers, promise.
Sometimes you’re given a gift in the form of a story. A story that touches your heart, your soul, that thing that we call our “being”, it’s so deep that there really aren’t words for that place… but we know it well.
His Touch is that kind of story. It hits right in the middle of the heart and never lets go. There are many references to September 11, 2001 within this tale, not in a morbid way, but in a remembering the people and what they meant to us way.
Kara is a single parent. Her beautiful daughter, Nadia, is certainly a handful. It seems to Kara that she is doing just about everything wrong. A fact that seems to be reinforced by the angry paramedic that she keeps running into everywhere around New York City.
Reid keeps running into Kara and the heartbreaking Nadia. Just looking into those beautiful baby eyes brings such painful memories. Erin, his daughter, would look up at him with those same beautiful baby eyes – eyes that would never twinkle at him with mischief again. Why wasn’t this mother more careful? Didn’t she know she could lose everything if something happened to Nadia? On some level Reid knew it was his grief talking, his desperate desire to hold his own daughter once more that drove him to say the awful things he said to Kara – but he couldn’t stop himself.
Kara and Reid seem fated to be together, and slowly their attraction becomes the focus of the story. A health scare for Nadia will bring Reid to his knees, and his fears will almost cost him the woman he loves and the baby he adores. Reid has to overcome his grief and Kara needs to understand that she’ll make mistakes, but she’s not alone – and that they need each other to find perfect.
His Touch is such an emotional roller coaster story. You will smile, cry, get angry and remember. Finding their happy ever after may take a while, and each has baggage they need to lose, but these two people need to be together and the journey to get there is fun, charming and touching. I would gladly recommend this novel to any reader at all. ‘Cos we all need the simply feel good stories in our lives.
*I received an e-ARC of His Touch from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. That does not change what I think of this novel.*
His Touch is available for the Kindle
