Dr. Dad

by Judith Arnold

Dr. Toby Cole, a widowed pediatrician, is delighted. Lindsey, his exasperating ten-year-old daughter, is out of the doldrums at last. A new friend has moved in next door.Well, not a friend friend. Susannah Dawson is the retired thirty-two-year-old star of the hit soap opera Mercy Hospital, who has fled to small-town Connecticut to escape the Hollywood glitz. Toby's sure she can be a positive influence in Lindsey's increasingly rebellious life.Before long, Toby and Susannah have to acknowledge that they are a positive influence in each other's lives. In fact, they've fallen in love.Toby is smitten with Susannah. Lindsey is smitten with Susannah. It sounds ideal. It's not!Maybe what Toby needs now is the Daddy School—to help him sort out the jealousy and disloyalty he and his daughter have started to feel.

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