Fighting Her Touch

A Lesbian Medical Romance Drama (Healing Hearts, Book 2)

By: M.T. Cassen

Narrated by: Ashton Haugen

Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

The future is fully mapped for young new nurse Elizabeth Fletcher. Her engagement to Mr. Chad Hawthorne foretells a life among the wealthy and powerful.

New nurse Elizabeth Fletcher is excited to be finally following the career of her dreams, even if it will only be for a few months. When she begins work at the Corrine Ann Pettrone Medical Center (CAPMED) in Chicago, she quickly realizes that she jumped in too deep. She loves the hospital environment, but things start to feel too real, too fast.

Dating Chad Hawthorne, her wealthy boyfriend of five years, Liz always believed she could have love and a career. Yet, when she accepts Chad’s marriage proposal, all bets are off. It is becoming clear to her that his views of what a Hawthorne wife should and should not do are pretty well set.

With little time before the marriage to make a life for herself, Liz desperately wants to prove she can have both. Throwing herself into her career is only a start. What she doesn’t count on is throwing herself into the arms of a non-Hawthorne: a woman—an older woman!

Marisa Cavanaugh is confident, and beautiful, and commands a presence in every room she enters. But what she doesn’t want to portray is the woman that is still fighting a broken heart. She handles that well, or so it seems.

Marisa and Liz spark an instant connection, and for the first time in Liz’s life, she finds someone who appreciates her as she is, and the career that shapes her.

Marisa needs to fight through her chemistry with Liz because there are just too many hurdles in their way. For one, Liz is nearly half her age. It will never work, and Marisa is set on proving that to everyone, especially herself. Yet, their connection just might be too much for Marisa to deny.
Marisa is everything Liz desires in a partner Will Liz be able to secure her happiness with a new love? Or will Liz’s secret be the thing that pulls Marisa away from her once and for all?

Fighting Her Touch is an extraordinary story of love and growth. Liz and Marisa have something special, but it’ll require honesty to acknowledge their connection, and courage to follow their hearts.

Two women, one love. Sometimes, the "wrong" person is the right one for you!

Lose yourself in doubt and desire with Liz and Marisa.

What do you do if Ms. Wrong is just what the doctor ordered?

©2022 M.T. Cassen (P)2022 M.T. Cassen

loved it

Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! After listening to this story,. I totally enjoyed reading this book. It’s well written and the characters were uniquely fantastic. I would suggest this book to my friends that like this sort of genera. this was a good book. The narration was great.

Terrific new narrator; I liked side character best

As required by U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations and Audible.com requirements, I am disclosing that I was given a free review copy of this audiobook at my request. I have listened to the audiobook, and I have voluntarily left an honest review. Receiving a review copy did not influence my rating nor my review.

“Fighting Her Touch” changed the narrator from book 1, which initially disappointed me but the new narrator did a fantastic job, and I’m looking forward to hearing her again on book 3 of the series.

A few of the characters from book 1 make reappearances, but book 2 focuses on our two new MCs: Liz and Marissa. My favorite character in the book, btw, was side character Samantha! I have to say I looked ahead to the blurb for book 3, hoping it would feature Samantha. Alas…not to be.

Yes, it probably says something about how I feel about the MCs if my review focuses first on a side character. I just couldn’t connect with Liz, the younger of the two MCs. She succumbed to an engagement with a man to make her parents happy. Happily for us, he’s rushed off to France for business, and monkey business, so he’s not a big part of the book. My biggest issue with Liz was the cavalier way she treated her employment; frankly, after accepting an engagement she doesn’t want, her job decision really screamed “immature” to an older love interest and just didn’t seem appropriate to the love story.

MC Marisa is eighteen years older than Liz, and is having a difficult time moving on from her ex. She wants a stable relationship, and is concerned about Liz being too young. While some age-gap stories make the gap work, in this case the MCs just sort of ended up together. I didn’t quite get the “fight” for each other.

Great story

This is a touching story of someone opening themselves up and someone discovering themselves and finding love

Enjoyable

I loved this book
This was such a fun, interesting read. The author has such a way with dialogue and her characters pop to life. If you enjoy the sample I think you'll enjoy the book even more

Unexpected Love

Elizabeth though she had her future all planned and then wham in walks Marisa. Liz is drawn to Marisa's confidence and kindness. Marisa finally feels a spark in her broken heart and of course it would be for a woman she can't have. Their journey from friendship to more is a natural one and they can't deny their feeling for each other. I enjoyed this second book in the series and look forward to the next one.

An okay story

Personally I did not love this book, the main character came across whiney. Which was frustrating for me. I also didn’t love the narration, but I did not hate it. It was much better than others I’ve listened to. There were a number of duplicate sentences that did not get caught in editing. Overall the story was good. Worth listening to if you’re interested in medical romances.

Good age-gap romance

Book 2 in the Healing Hearts series was much better than Book 1, both in the quality of the writing and the audiobook narration. The characters were developed much better to where the author makes you care about the characters and the storyline. The overall heat meter for this book is simmering. Sex scenes are implied but are not fully written out as in some other novels. If you are looking for a sweeter story that isn't focused around sex, this would be a good one to pick up.

The narrator change for this book was a welcome one. After Book 1, I wasn't sure I wanted to listen to another in the series. I'm glad I did. Ashton Haugen did an excellent job, especially with the Liz character. I could fully picture her through the voice that she gave to her character. The voice of Marisa seemed to change a bit as she slowly started looking at her feelings and the possibility of dating again. I don't know if that was on purpose or not, but it was a definite change for the character during the story.

Overall I found this to be a very enjoyable listen and I look forward to the author's next release in the series. I would highly recommend this for someone who enjoys a good WLW novel that is just looking for a caring story with a happy ending.

Enjoyable listen

I received a free code for this book, here is my review.
Having just completed some rather long les fic audio books I felt I was in need of a quick light story one I could complete listening to in one day. It became a hard listen as I am not a fan of high femme voice tones. It sounds child like, prefect for Charlotte's Web ect. and therefore a big turn off. That said, the narrator is gifted in her reading and execution just.... well that childish tone just doesn't belong in my brain when picturing two women together but I forced myself to grow up and continued to the end. BTW I am 60, that has got to figure in.
Ms. Cassen, you mentioned you read all reviews, dare I suggest if that is a corgi you are holding, add one in your next book. Who could resist those short legged steal your heart forever angels. I'll keep my eyes and ears on the look out.
Thankyou for allowing me this opportunity.

Good book

I love books about medical personal, and for that I took this book, the story was good, not one of the best in the genre that I read but good. I didn’t care for the voice Ashton Haugen gave the MC, it made her sound childish, yes she is young very young but she sounded more like a 10 YO than a 23 YO.

Finding A Path

Very new Nurse Elizabeth Fletcher is so excited to be on her career path. Engagement to Chad Hawthorne is not really what she wanted. When she meets Marisa Cavanaugh she sees a beautiful and confident women. With an instant connection and a new friendship they find themselves becoming drawn together in every way. Will Marisa be able to recover from her previous relationship and will Liz be able to open to a very different life? Fun series.