| Title | : | One Tiny Miracle... |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0263209075 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780263209075 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 |
| Publication | : | First published November 1, 2009 |
When Ben realizes Celeste is a nurse at the hospital, he wants to keep his distance. She reminds him too much of all he's lost. But Celeste is clearly facing this challenging pregnancy alone, and Ben can't help coming to her rescue. Being with her to deliver her premature baby girl finally makes him realize there's a future for him right here after all--if he's prepared to risk enough to claim it....
One Tiny Miracle... Reviews
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This was an emotional heartwarming story. Ben had lost his wife, and his daughter years ago. He never had the chance to hold his daughter, so he never grieved for the loss of his daughter.
He met Celeste on the beach. They found out that they were neighbors, and also coworkers. Ben was a doctor, and Celeste was a nurse. Celeste was pregnant, with no support system. She didn’t have many friends, and her parents kind of disowned her when she found out she was pregnant. Ben was always there when she needed someone to talk to or something came up. Ben was up front that he never wanted kids. He didn’t tell Celeste why. He just couldn’t bare that kind of pain again. The more time he spent around Celeste, the more his heart began to heal. When he finally allowed himself to hold Willow, he was able to grieve for the daughter he lost. He was able to find peace, and love. He was able to have hope of a future with Celeste, and Willow.
This book was like no other. The birth of Willow was very different. After Willow was born pulled at my emotions. The author is very talented, because the story seemed so real. It made me really feel what new mothers must feel, when they have baby’s that are born too early. I could feel the worry, the stress, and the joy of each small mile stone.
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This is the nineteenth book by
Carol Marinelli that I'm reading and the seventh in her Medical imprint books.
Dr Ben Richardson is about to start as the Emergency Registrar at Melbourne’s Bay View Hospital. This would be his fourth job in nearly four years since his wife Jennifer’s death. Celeste Mitchell is his almost seven months pregnant neighbour and also a grad nurse at the same hospital, in his department. But he's finding it very difficult to be around her, especially after what happened with his wife.
Their heart-to-heart right at the beginning went perfectly in building a strong relationship between them, despite not them being in any kind of relationship at the beginning. And this one had so many laugh-out-loud moments. But there were really sad ones too, as far as Celeste's parents were concerned. The way they behaved with their only daughter for most of the time they were present in the story. And with no father to speak of, everything was so tough for Celeste what with Ben grappling with his own past.
All I'm going to say is that it made me cry, yep, real tears and so I'll definitely recommend it. Even though babies aren't super aware just after being born, or so I've heard (and maybe I've heard wrong) but the connection between Ben and baby Willow was really special. And it was so tough to see him struggle with not loving both Celeste and Willow. I just wanted some comeuppance for the biological father of Willow but of course, revenge rarely happens in Harlequin. But the epilogue served as the cherry on top of a beautiful story.Love grew if you let it.
P.S. I read a PDF copy of the book which I downloaded from the
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I have just completed this book for the second time. I actually read this in 2012 or 2013. It was one of the first books I read when I began my new obsession...reading romance. The first time I read it I loved it but had very little to compare it to and since I was a beginner I had no 'triggers' because at the time I was unaware what triggers were. I thought it was great because there was such a happy ending.
What I now find is not so great after more than a thousand books later. It took the length of the book for the hero, Ben, to come to his senses and allow himself to love again. Ben was a widower and his wife had passed in a most tragic circumstance. Four years had gone by since the tragedy but he hadn't moved forward much at all preferring to live in his grief. He had been trying to run away from it moving and changing jobs three times in almost four years.
Ben had been hired on as an Emergency Registrar at Melbourne's Bay View Hospital. The evening before his first day at work he was walking along the beach and his eyes feasted upon a lovely young woman. It hit him fast and hard until she turned around and he got his first glimpse of her pregnant belly. Babies/kids - something he wanted no part of ever. If he couldn't have one with his deceased wife then he wanted none. The young woman was Celeste and the best I could understand since medical terminology is quite different in Australia was that she had been accepted at the graduate emergency nursing programme. She was twenty-four years old and didn't have a long way to go until she was finished.
On Ben's first day of work he is quite surprised that he ran into his new neighbor he had met on the beach the night before. He gave himself a strong talking to and tried to keep away from her. He reminded himself he didn't do relationships, love or children, just meaningless sex was all he was up for...pardon the pun! The guy had a heck of a time staying away from Celeste and she felt drawn to him like a magnet. They would spend a little time together and then he would retreat and stay away. This went back and forth for almost the entire book until she finally had enough and completely left the relationship...if you could call it one.
Now, our Celeste was a sweetheart and had been through heartbreak. The man she thought she was in love with and would be settling down with ended up being married with other girlfriends/mistresses, as well. She didn't find any of this out until after she conceived. They were only together twice intimately but had been seeing each other for months and she had still been a virgin when she met him. She was horribly mistreated by her ultra religious family and they put her out on the streets when they found out she was pregnant. She had been though a lot as well. The ex-lover now wanted nothing to do with his child so she moved away and had been accepted for a position at Bay View Hospital.
So, what I liked. I liked Celeste. She was a strong woman although a bit broken and abused by her family and the ex. She was willing to do whatever it would take to give her child the life it deserved and she was tough when she had to be. The woman could speak her mind and get to the bottom of a situation but her confidence was quite low since the ex-lover had pulled the wool over her eyes. Only problem was she was falling for her neighbor Ben and one day they were together then the next he would pull away. It went back and forth so frequently I had a little bit of whiplash following along.
If there is one thing I despise almost as much as cheaters in romance, it's a man who treats a woman poorly and keeps her off balance, upset and deeply hurt during a high-risk pregnancy. He was a doctor for crying out loud. He was the first to check on her health and saw she was looking more and more ill as she went along. But, that didn't seem to matter. He continued his back and forth until she had had enough and permanently left him. He had her head spinning and mine as well. I just lose all respect when a man keeps a woman so upset, longing for him, being with him and then he would pull his disappearing act. That is a horrible way to spend a pregnancy, let alone a high-risk one. -
It was an ok book, but it is a Harlequinn and I find their books leave me wanting more, like the story is hurried or something. It had a good story line. Just wanted something more.
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This book was totally Harlequin.. I am reminded why I really try to avoid these types of books, unless others have read them and assured me they are okay..
Ben is a doctor who lost his wife and unborn child.. He clearly is having a very hard time moving on with his life, and when he meets Celeste he is unsure of why he has feelings for her right off, and is on a mission to avoid them..
Celeste is a single girl who is about to have a baby.. She is in her 7th month I think when she meets Ben, and she is sick. She is a strong girl, but she likes Ben, even though she knows he won't ever really care for her..
The back and forth thing with Ben was sad, but it annoyed me a bit too.. Like he didn't know what he wanted, but he made Celeste feel bad, and she didn't deserve or need that..
Anyway.. of course like any Harlequin it ties up at the end.. the very freaking.
It was free, and I think it still is.. for that you can totally read it.. but if you have to pay money.. I wouldn't suggest it.. Especially if you are an American.. I have read Australian and ENglish authors before, and never found their dialog hard to understand.. This author made it impossible for anyone who is not from where she is to understand some of the words.. -
Pretty good unwed-mother romance
Dr. Ben Richardson lost his beloved wife, a fellow doctor, and his unborn child four years ago, and he is still in mourning. He is making a new start at the emergency department at a hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Since being around pregnant women recalls traumatic memories, Ben is both drawn and repelled by his beautiful, extremely pregnant neighbor. Then he learns that Celeste is a nurse in his department at the hospital, and it is difficult to maintain his distance, either at work or at home. Celeste is clearly struggling financially and physically, and it is impossible for Ben to see how much she needs emotional support and not try to, at the very least, be a friend.
I'm not usually a fan of pregnancy romances, where the heroine is pregnant with another man's child when she meets the hero, but this book was free, and I thought I'd give it a try. I personally am a bit squeamish (and incredulous) when the hero is utterly turned on by the heroine's gestationally swollen figure, so I was relieved that in this book Ben and Celeste don't have sex until well after the baby is born. It is also nice that they are friends for a long time before they become lovers.
The romantic conflict of Ben's mourning his wife is movingly done, and Celeste is believably hurt and discouraged by the abandonment of her baby's father.
This is definitely a Cinderella story, and the heroine is so pathetically bad off, it is rather hard to read sometimes, but the hero nobly rides to her rescue on numerous occasions without being obnoxiously perfect or causing her to seem totally helpless.
All in all, this is a good read for people who like stories about an abandoned pregnant woman who finds true love.
The Kindle edition is well edited and formatted.
I rate this story as follows:
Heroine: 4 stars
Hero: 4 stars
Romance plot: 4 stars
Writing: 4 stars
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An older book, but one that still gave my heart a tug.
Dr. Ben Richardson lost his pregnant wife four years ago. He doesn't "do" children, or relationships. And a relationship with someone pregnant? Just no.
Of course his heart is telling him something different when he meets Celeste, a nurse at the hospital he's now working at...A pregnant nurse with no one else to watch out for her.
Celeste is a bit ditzy, except when it counts. She's a kind woman and totally freaked over being a single mom. But she keeps going, because it's the right thing for her to do.
The surprise delivery of baby Willow, in his new backyard, under a tree, was quite exciting! And shocking for him...and Celeste. That's not the way it was supposed to happen.
When Ben tells Celeste that he's not good for her, that he just can't be there for her, and especially he can't be there for the baby, she knows that. She doesn't want him for a daddy figure for her daughter. She wants him for himself. She sees him for the strong, loving man that he is.
I enjoyed the fact that Celeste isn't ready to "settle" for the scraps. It was a very strong moment for her and I liked it, a lot.
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I thought this was a heartwarming story about grief, recovery, and moving on to find love again. I was touched by Ben's history and the sadness he lived with after losing his wife and unborn child. I really felt for him and understood his hesitation to become involved with Celeste. I thought Celeste was strong, despite being lied to by a married man. She was determined to raise her child on her own, but she believed that took her off the market for any decent eligible bachelor. When she learns Ben is her neighbor, their paths cross over and over, tearing down her walls and allowing love inside, whether either of them wanted it or not.
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A really heartwarming story about unexpectedly finding love after losing everything.
Widowed Ben meets pregnant Celeste while walking along the beach near his new home. What starts as a chance meeting turns into a friendship of sorts while Ben tries to deal with the ghosts from his past.
I don't usually read medical romances, but glad I tried this one. It was sweet and enjoyable. I couldn't help but adore Ben. He tried so hard to fight his feelings for Celeste but he got there in the end. Celeste is so naive, caring and easy to like. Both characters needed a second chance at love and found that in each other. -
I liked this book..The trouble is I usually love medical emergency books and Carol Marinelli wrote the amazing Wife lost and found. I just did not like this book as much as I liked the others. I really could never connect with Ben. I understand he lost his wife but don't drag another woman into your heart when you can not love her the way that she needs to be loved. Enough said about that. This book was warming and definitely a Harlequin. I will read this author again soon!
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was a good read. liked how they both had doubts and worries to work through and that she stood up for herself and her baby.
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I liked the book for the first three quarters. Thought the ending was too rushed for the issues the characters were dealing with
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Oli ihana kirja!!
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This book was free on kindle. I was drawn to the beautiful baby on the cover and decided to check this one out. It was well worth the read.
Some of the reviewers weren't happy with Carol Marinelli's writing. I would like to offer my two cents. First, Carol Marinelli is a British author. I've read several British authors, and come to realize their writing style and use of words is a little different from American authors. In my honest opinion, I don't this should be held against the author in reviews. What we think is a grammatical or spelling error, is not the case for them. Just my opinion, on to the review.
This was a cute romance novel. The simple romance novel formula: they meet, have connection, energy, charge, etc. They have some type of problem, he breaks her heart, they overcome the problem and live happily ever after. You get the concept. That formula applies here and the author did a great job and wrote a beautiful story.
Spoiler Alert!!
Dr. Ben Richardson, grieved his wife's death, however he never grieved for his unborn daughter. As a result he was detached from children. When he finally realized it, he grieved in two pages and moved on with life. As writers, myself included, I think we sometimes get a little lazy, want this labor and delivery over, or we rush to publish. As a result we rush parts of the book that need developing.
The ending made this novel a four instead of five. The ending was rushed. Cured in two pages. WOW. -
This was a cute story set in Melbourne Australia. I didn't really get the local color of the place, so other than the place names, it could have been anywhere. There was a lot of head-hopping and telling which distracted me. I had to go back and figure out whose head we were in every few paragraphs. But I liked the theme about letting love grow rather than forcing it.
The setting is an emergency room where the hero is a doctor and the heroine is a pregnant nurse. The hero has an aversion to babies but feels drawn to the heroine. He keeps pushing her away because of her baby and was stuck with a one-track mind of avoiding babies. Kind of hard since he's a doctor and she's always in need of medical care, first for her and later for her baby.
The premise of the story was interesting, if not a bit predictable, but the emotions did not run deep enough for me. The right words were said, actions taken, love scene drawn out, and the subsequent misunderstanding and breakup were all well placed and scripted including the sudden change of heart. But I had trouble feeling the tension and angst and couldn't get into the characters because the point of view wasn't deep enough. I still recommend this book as a quick read and entertaining for people used to the Emergency room. And of course the baby is the shining star and reward for reading. -
3 Sweet Stars for One Tiny Miracle
I downloaded this book for free and thought it was a very sweet story. An emergency room doctor, whose pregnant wife died tragically four years ago, and a naive young nurse who finds herself pregnant and alone live in the same apartment complex. Brought together by proximity at home and at work they find themselves naturally drawn together. While Ben has come to accept the death of his wife, he has never been able to fully grieve for his unborn child. After Celeste goes into labor prematurely and Ben delivers her daughter, he withdraws from them both because he is unable to deal with being around a new baby. He resists Celeste and then instead of immediately changing his mind, like what happens in so many similar books, he does actually distance himself from Celeste and her daughter. Eventually Ben is able to face the loss of his own child, and accept and love Celeste and baby Willow, no surprise there. The story is very sweetly written without being sickening and the characters have depth. As a nurse I appreciated the medical aspects of the story. This story is set in Australia so some of the terms and language may be unknown to American readers. -
Romance novels are definitely my guilty pleasure and this one had everything I love! Ben has gone through so much in his life, losing his wife and unborn child. We watch him struggle with his emotions while trying to move. It's really heartbreaking to watch/read. Then he meets Celeste and we all fall in love with her. She's a soon-to-be single mom who is also struggling with her life. She doesn't have a lot of money and no family or friends to turn to besides Ben. Through their friendship, we watch each of them grow and try to move on with their lives. But Ben never seems to think that he deserves a new family because of his past loss. When Celeste's daughter is born prematurely, we finally see Ben realize what's been missing in his life - a family. He learns to move on from the death of his wife and child, and ultimately find happiness with Celeste. This was a really good book! I downloaded it on my Kindle app and finished it in about two days. The characters are vulnerable, loving, and charismatic If your guilty pleasure is romance novels, then I highly encourage you to read this one :)
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Contemporary medical romance set in Australia near a beautiful beach where two people unlikely (and not looking for love) find it anyway.
Dr. Ben Richardson has more baggage then the usual man at this young age because he lost his wife while she was pregnant with their child almost four years ago, but his heart is too scared to move on and find a new life-mate. So when he finds a hugely pregnant lady on the beach near his new apartment, he figures that he can just help and be friends because no one will date a pregnant lady... oh, no! It's never a good idea to make assumptions like that when love can strike whenever and where ever you are. So Celeste is in a bad situation and isolated because of her surprise pregnancy, so she clings to her new friendship with Ben although they hide it from everyone at the hospital. So a series of events opens everyone eyes to love and redemption and a bunch of healing in the months that pass in this story. HEA guaranteed although there are some crazy stuff going on in the mean times.
192 pages and kindle freebie
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One Tiny Miracle is an emotion filled romance between Dr. Ben Richardson and a nurse working ER with him. Celeste is expecting a child after an affair with a man that told her he was single but is married and wants nothing to do with her or her baby. She is determined to keep the baby and is working late in her pregnancy when health issues force her to stop working.
Ben and Celeste are neighbors and he becomes aware that she is not taking good care of herself and is exhausted. He becomes her friend and they often eat together, relax watching movies or TV and enjoying each other's company. Ben is not looking for a relationship and is still suffering from the loss of his wife and unborn child from four years earlier. He is attracted to the straight-forward Celeste, but can't get past the ghosts from his past. Will he find a way to get past his hang-ups or will he lose Celeste and Willow, One Tiny Miracle? -
2.5 stars
Liked it but not as much as I liked
Emergency: Wife Lost and Found. It got pretty depressing whenever Ben thought about his loss, and then frustrating as he went hot and cold toward Celeste. I admired Celeste for standing up for herself and for her baby even though it would have been easier to quickly accept Ben's declaration of love. I did find Ben's acceptance of Celeste's demand rather sudden.
One thing I do appreciate with this author's medical romances is how real the hospital setting and the medical characters seem. On the other hand, although this takes place in Australia, I did not get any sense of Australia at all. -
Not great at all.
I liked the medical context and life of the emergency department. There were a few details that I could have done without in this field, but however it felt realistic and interesting.
Now that's about it. I did not like and did not believe in any of the two lead characters. Both have heavy baggage, but I never could care about it, not about their ability to have a happy ending. They just remained characters, very completely emotionless, which should not have been the case considering their past.
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I read this book for the A Book A Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay challenge. 19– The worst worldwide influenza pandemic ended in 1919. Read a book from the medical genre, or a book with a character who is a Doctor or Nurse, or a book where someone dies from the flu.
So, first my disclaimer: I really dislike everything to do with the medical profession. That being said, this was a cute, fairly typical Harlequin style romance. The hero was a bit of an asshole throughout, but has an instant change of heart and everything gets wrapped up neatly with a bow in the last 10 or so pages of the book. It was a decent read, but nothing memorable or remarkable here. -
One Tiny Miracle brings a doctor and a young unmarried expecting nurse together to heal from their hurts and challenges in life. The doctor lost his wife to a brain hemorrhage and the young nurse was tricked by a married man into an affair that she cut off when she found out he was married. These two have their ups and downs but find peace and happiness while sharing One Tiny Miracle at a time.
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I have owned this book for several years, and I finally decided to read it as part of a retinue of sweet, HEA books. The story was a little melodramatic, but it was compelling enough to finish in just a couple of sittings--maybe even one if I hadn't needed to go to sleep.
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A simple and predictable read, but sweet nevertheless.
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I picked this up at my local library and it was a quick read.
Here we follow Dr. Ben who has just moved into a new town and a new job at Melbourne hospital. This is no different for him because he has jumped from place to place since the death of his wife and unborn child four years ago. However, on his first day in Melbourne, he comes across a pregnant woman at the beach and he instantly gets attracted to her. He later finds out that she is his neighbor in the apartment. He also finds out that she is an emergency nurse at Melbourne hospital.
They slowly get to know each other and he soon has to decide if he is willing to move on from his heartbreak and fall into a relationship with Celeste and her baby girl. -
One Tiny Miracle
They met in the beach. He didn't know that she also work at the hospital A&E. He moved there to get away from the memories of losing his wife and child. She moved there to get away from the hurt of her cheating boyfriend. He had made her into 'the other woman ' by being married. Can one little girl change the way too hurt people learn to forgive and love?
