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Bridget plans to spend her summer working as a white water rafting guide and studying for her beautician’s license exam. She isn’t looking for romance, and she isn’t impressed with nerdy nurse Drew when he steps into her raft. She’s looking for a strongman like the father she failed, but she finds it hard to resist Drew’s passion for life.
As a hospital nurse, Drew loves helping people to heal, but after one of his younger patients dies, Drew feels the need to seize the day. So, he faces his fear of open water and goes white water rafting. He’s attracted to Bridget, but meeting his dream girl couldn’t have come at a worse time. His best friend is in trouble and Drew must decide how far he’s willing to go to keep his friend’s secret.
When injury capsizes Bridget’s career, they’ll need strength beyond their own to keep their love afloat.
Whitewater Wishes is set in Ohiopyle State Park in Western PA, and the descriptions make you wish you were there. When Bridget, a whitewater rafting guide, meets Drew, a man who is afraid of the water, a friendship develops. Throughout the story, they each have personal issues they need to take care of, and both show their strength of character in their relationships with other people. It is easy to root for them to find happiness together. My favorite part of the book (edited a bit to avoid spoilers) is the following: “He didn’t have any guarantees. No one did, really. The only guarantee was Jesus, faithfully walking beside them in life and loving them into eternity.” Ms. Robles takes us into a unique setting through an inspirational journey with well-developed characters you’ll enjoy spending time with.
If you love a good Hallmark romance, but don’t love the tired predictability of a formulaic script, you will really enjoy Whitewater Wishes. The author captivates the reader’s attention with beautiful imagery and engaging character development, then artfully wades into the deeper waters of real-life tragedy, trauma, addiction and sorrow… and then gently maneuvers the storyline through a refreshing stream of grace, love, healing, and redemption. If you’ve been looking for the rare, unicorn novel that manages to easily draw you into an engaging story without sacrificing eloquent prose or cheaply succumbing to mature content to draw an audience, you have found your book. “Gray tree trunks supported a canopy of brilliant green. Lichen spotted slabs of granite poked through the topsoil occasionally like bald spots on the mountain’s scalp.”
A very enjoyable story with well developed, realistic, and likeable characters who, after a few missteps, find their way to each other. I could hang out with these guys, if I was a lot younger. I enjoyed getting to know Bridget and Drew and the other characters who fill out the story so well. Not so much a “romance novel” as it is a novel with romance in it. Very good.
