Jenna receives an abrupt missive from a Frenchman. Its never fun reading about the hero being (even though platonic) with OW, and the heroine whining about OM in order to one-up the hero.Įnds in a predictable manner. I did like her visiting her father's past- but the OW drama was exhausting, so was her constant losing of spars to Alain.

This was an interesting, albeit repetitive read. Soon she is contacted by his step-son, Alain to visit her inheritance in France- and initially resistant- she soon gives in order to claim what she believes is rightfully hers.Īs she finally learns the truth about his second wife, her mother, and her own existence- she engages in a battle of seduction and wills with Alain and slowly understands the truth.

The decision however, is taken out of her hand when she meets with an accident and her father passes away. When Jenna, an English school teacher recieves an urgent incentive to visit her dying, estranged father- she is torn. 'A Healing Fire' is the story of Alain and Jenna. This is probably a two star story (definitely a two star romance), but I like this author's writing and was interested until the end, so three stars it is. Once the heroine is free of her bitterness, she realizes she loves the hero. The hero fell in love with her portrait and has been thinking about her all of these years. There's a painting of the heroine at 16 on a bicycle that the her father painted from a photograph. The hero's mother turns out to be really sweet. I skipped to the end, but really there isn't much else to the story besides the heroine's huge chip on her shoulder about her father. There's an OM that shows up to make the hero jealous, but we're off to France where the heroine will finally untangle her mother's lies and fall in the love with the hero. Heroine is shocked and saddened, but also angry that her father didn't remember her in a will. Two weeks later the French financier hero (her stepbrother) shows up to inform the heroine that her father died and she owns one third of his home according to French law. Heroine is mulling it over when she is hit by a car and has to be hospitalized. The story opens with a letter informing the heroine that her father is dying and he wants to see her. Heroine was raised by her beautiful single mother to hate her artist father for abandoning them for a women in France.

A Healing Fire by Patricia Wilson