The Knitter's Heartwish — Daisy Dexter Dobbs

Maureen Malone loves knitting unique items for the kids at the children's hospital where she volunteers. Hoping to brighten their day, Reen even wears her quirky knitted hats with the long yarn braids in the children's ward. The kids giggle, the nurses grin, and some people pretend not to see her. Reen's happy to provide a little laughter, even if it means looking silly. While some people are multi-degreed or have high-profile jobs, she believes humor is as important as being proficient in calculus, or well-read in Shakespeare. Leaving the house to deliver more hats, Reen slips on an icy step, breaking her ankle and tailbone. Her neighbor, Professor Drake Slattery, witnesses her fall and, ignoring her protests, takes her to the hospital. With dark, wavy hair and blue-gray eyes, the brilliant single dad can easily pass for Clark Kent…maybe Superman. But it doesn't matter. She and Drake are only good friends—buddies with very little in common. Maureen makes Drake crazy. She's stubborn, lacks common sense, acts before thinking, and has all the self-confidence of a peanut. She's a packrat, filling her house with other people's castoffs and endless skeins of yarn. Sometimes it seems she has yarn for brains. That said, Drake wouldn't change a thing about her. He's watched her knit until her fingers bleed so she can finish her special projects for the sick kids in the hospital. There's no better person he knows than Reen Malone. His twins love her…and so does he. Of course, none of that matters because, that time he tried to kiss her, Reen made it clear she thinks of him like a brother.