Trauma Alert by Radclyffe

 

   The first in Radclyffe’s newest series, First Responder Novels, Trauma Alert brings together Rad’s two areas of expertise, romance, for which she has been a seven-time Lambda Literary finalist, and medicine, she is a retired surgeon.

   In the first chapter we meet Dr. Ali Torveau, a trauma surgeon in Philadelphia, who’s entire life is about her work. Dr. Torveau is so wrapped up in her work that she doesn’t want or need anything else, certainly nothing as transient as love, that is until Philadelphia firefighter Beau Cross, someone else who’s life is all about her work, shows up in Dr. Torveau’s ER.

   With Dr. Torveau’s life carefully ordered and controlled, several women attempt to change the doctor’s life and priorities, wanting what they know they cannot have. But when Dr. Torveau’s training session on crush injuries to the chest is interrupted by the tardy, super-confident, sexually charismatic and egotistical Cross, the sparks begin to fly. Then, after making a bet with a colleague centered around getting the attractive doctor to go out with Cross, the fabric of Dr. Torveau’s neatly sewn life begins to unravel, as does Cross’.

   Without a doubt, Radclyffe has done it again. The carefully woven lives of these two workaholic adrenaline junkies keeps the reader turning pages until the very end. One of the instruments I use to determine whether or not a book is good is rather simple; if I can’t put the book down and read it completely in one or two sittings, then the book is, by all counts, worthy of reading and usually award nominations. This is one such book.

 

Trauma Alert

Radclyffe

Paperback

Bold Strokes Books

 

(as published in Phoenix Magazine)