ACTS OF KINDNESS

About the Book

Ben Bairstow is a busy general surgeon whose life is filled with routine cases and life-threatening emergencies. Into that life comes a beautiful young woman, the wife of his partner, who needs his medical attention. He struggles between his attraction to her and his need to maintain a distance if he is to help her get well. She is also attracted to him, which complicates Bairstow’s life. In his private life, Bairstow has three children, one of whom has been arrested for shoplifting, and a devoted wife. Developing conflicts in the family challenge each member, threatening to drive them apart while Bairstow strives to keep them, and himself, together.

About the Author

Catherine Hosmer is a pilot and the author of several fiction and non-fiction books which she wrote "in her spare time" while raising a family of four daughters with her doctor husband in Keene, New Hampshire. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College with an MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts and an MA from Goddard College. She contributes freelance articles to national newspapers and magazines.