Dr. Sarah Benedict has returned to Port Hamilton after working in Central America thinking she can return to small town living and practice medicine.  When she returns she finds out the locals are ready to allow CMS to buy their hospital and turn it into a managed care facility.  For Sarah this means selling out, and allowing money to be the priority, not the patients who need care.  Sarah’s best friend from childhood Matt is one of the doctors swaying toward CMS for personal reasons – he needs a break from the stress of being one of the few doctors around to care for emergencies. 

Matt is the father of a fourteen year old daughter who finds herself put in the position of sharing her father for the first time since her parents divorced.  Matt is pulled between his growing attraction to his best friend and his daughter, Lucy.   

Sarah and Matt make a great team of characters.  Their opposite goals and lifestyles make them clash, yet the love and friendship between them is so strong that you wonder what made them think they could ever just be friends.  Lucy is a great deterrent for any relationship, her father loves her to death and his need to put her first gives him character and depth that make him the man readers want to love.  Throw in that his ex-wife still manages to have a friendship with him despite their past relationship, and that his mother-in-law worships him even after he divorced her daughter and you have the perfect man.   

Sarah is a great character as well; her flaws are written in ways that made this reader see them as character strengths.  She was just flawed enough to make her seem like a great companion and the woman you want to call your best friend.  Not quite perfect enough to make you jealous, just perfect enough to love forever.  She is great stepmother material and this reviewer rooted for her to get past Lucy’s barriers to become her friend. 

The one thing this reviewer just could not understand about this novel was the title…  Maybe she missed something but THE BABY DOCTORS contains no baby? 

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