Take Heart — Willa Okati

St. Hawk's Medical:

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.

Take Heart by Willa Okati

Book One in the St. Hawk's Medical series


A gentle hippie with a new heart, a hellion making good, and a rebel doctor discover together how healing takes more than just medicine.


Dr. Brendan West, a dreamer and a doctor, knows there's more to life than the job, and he wants to experience it for himself. His first step after finding a temporary job at St. Hawk's is falling for kind-hearted gardener Evan -- only to discover that Evan's already taken by boisterous Griff.

For his part, Griff sees this as more of an opportunity than a threat. He likes the good doc's kind heart and clear eyes, and the way he sees it, their lonely doc needs them just as much, or more. With Evan on board, he sets to work bringing Brendan into a ménage relationship.

Brendan knows he could fall hard for the odd couple, but the thing is -- he's not in St. Hawk's for the long haul. He can't bear to surrender his heart if he's only going to leave it behind.

Can the doctor, the gardener and the hellion find a way to make it work, or will they find themselves losing out on love?


Willa Okati

About the Author:

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.