REVIEW: Fighting For Nadia by Nicole Flockton

Fighting For Nadia by Nicole Flockton is part of Badge of Honor: Tarpley Volunteer Fire Department, a world where authors enter into author Susan Stoker’s Badge of Honor series and write their own stories. With Susan Stoker’s permission, and encouragement, of course. This group of books centers around the Tarpley VDF which was featured in one of Ms. Stoker’s Badge of Honor books. There are six authors participating centering their stories around Tarpley VFD. Nicole Flocton’s story is the warmhearted adventure of two doctors who meet at a Tarpley town event and sparks fly.Nadia Fletcher’s roots and family are back in Boston. When she wasn’t accepted for an Emergency Room residency at any of the hospitals in the Boston area Nadia accepted one in Kerrville, Texas. She isn’t ready to turn her back on her Boston roots just yet though. After all she is a diehard New England Patriots football fan. But Texas is growing on her. She is enjoying her job and all the experience she is getting at the Hill Country Medical Center ER which she wouldn’t be getting in Boston. She has made some great friends in Texas and the icing on the cake is Mitchell “Buff” Anderson. He’s one hot cowboy member of the Tarpley Volunteer Fire Department. She is definitely attracted to him and is hoping the attraction is mutual

Oh yeah! The attraction is very mutual. Buff Alexander is an ex-Army surgeon who suffers from PTSD. He finds Nadia to be someone who soothes his psyche when a PTSD episode ensues. Plus she is drop-dead gorgeous! Thanks to Nadia’s encouragement Buff is seeing a therapist and is even considering going back to being the excellent doctor he is.

I liked how this author gets to the heart of how difficult it is for a person to deal with PTSD but also how wonderful it is to find a special someone who grounds the PTSD sufferer and makes the nightmares become a little better. Both Nadia and Buffare strong characters, very giving and dedicated. I really liked them.
 

Book Info:

Publication: February 18th 2020 |  | (Police and Fire: Operation Alpha) (Tarpley VFD Book 6)

A Fresh start. One Chance encounter. The storm of the century.

Ex-Army surgeon, Mitchell ‘Buff’ Alexander has returned to his family ranch to try and rebuild his life. He lost a lot in the war, but not everything. He can still help at the Tarpley Volunteer Firefighter Department. Now, relationships, that’s a battle he’s not prepared to fight. He knows he’s better off alone. PTSD is the one thing Buff wished hadn’t followed him home. While in the throes of yet another attack, a stranger helps him in a way no other person has ever been able to. But she’s a complication he can’t deal with at the moment.

ER Doctor, Nadia Fletcher wants more than this small town has to offer. She sets her sights on a dream job at a bigger hospital. After helping Buff through a PTSD episode, she wants to get to know him, but he won’t give her the time of day. As doors open and close, Nadia finds a new path and sees that the Texas Hill Country and the people might be what she needed all along.
When the storm of the century hits their small town, Nadia and Buff reunite and work together to save lives, reigniting the spark between them. Buff wants to be the man Nadia deserves, but he’s drowning in his own hell. Will Nadia be the one to pull him to the surface or will fears keep them apart?