Breathe Deep — Willa Okati

Breathe Deep by Willa Okati

Book three in the St. Hawk's Medical series

A golden-hearted mountain man. A nursing tech with a secret. Life and death are on the line -- and they're running out of time.

Shepherd knows what people think of him. He's too big, too tall and too broad not to be scary. But though he looks like a grizzly bear, he's all teddy on the inside. He's dreamed of finding someone to love. Someone who can help him break through his shyness and who he can shower with all the affection in his heart.

Kit knows what people think of him. That he's young, good-looking and kissed by luck. He survived leukemia as a teenager, and he thought he had his entire life ahead of him. But now, the cancer might be recurring -- deny it though he might -- and Kit's world has come crashing down. He needs someone like Shepherd. Someone kind and caring, who's strong enough to lean on.

Kit's falling fast for the big mountain man -- but he hasn't told Shepherd the truth. He's afraid that knowing he may be sick will be more than Shepherd can handle. And now, after delaying treatment, he thinks he may be running out of time.

Secrets can be life or death -- and when it comes to telling the truth, they can make all the difference.

The St. Hawk's Medical series

When the heart needs healing as much as the body, the lucky ones find their way to St. Hawk's Medical in Blue Creek. It can be hard to convince the stubborn ones that they need help and treatment isn't always by the book -- but for those who are willing, there's a second chance at life and love waiting for them in the foothills.

About Willa Okati

Willa Okati can most often be found muttering to herself over a keyboard, plugged into her iPod and breaking between paragraphs to play air drums. In her spare time (the odd ten minutes or so per day she's not writing) she's teaching herself to play the pennywhistle.

Willa has forty-plus separate tattoos and yearns for a full body suit of ink. She walks around in a haze of story ideas, dreaming of tales yet to be told. She drinks an alarming amount of coffee for someone generally perceived to be mellow.