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‘It’s delicious,’ Katie said, sipping the hot liquid and savouring the aroma. ‘I could almost be tempted to work here just for the coffee alone.’
Alex laughed. ‘So I’m making some headway at last. Wonderful. Do you want a refill?’
‘Let’s not get too excited.’ She lifted her gaze. ‘I don’t often give in that easily to temptation.’
‘You don’t?’ He started towards her as she put the cup down onto the worktop, and came to a halt just beside her. His gaze shimmered over her, pausing to linger momentarily on her soft, feminine curves. His smoky grey glance spoke volumes, his eyes glimmering with darting lights that tantalised and teased all at the same time. ‘That’s a real shame. I would so like to have been able to tempt you.’
Katie was suddenly flustered by his nearness. His body was so close to hers that they were almost touching…almost, but not quite. ‘I didn’t…I meant…’
TOP-NOTCH DOCS
He’s not just the boss, he’s the best there is!
These heroes aren’t just doctors,
they’re life-savers.
These heroes aren’t just surgeons,
they’re skilled masters. Their talent and
reputation are admired by all.
These heroes are devoted to their patients.
They’ll hold the littlest babies in their arms,
and melt the hearts of all who see.
These heroes aren’t just
medical professionals. They’re the
men of your dreams.
He’s not just the boss, he’s the best there is
A Consultant Beyond Compare
Joanna Neil
MILLS & BOON
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When JOANNA NEIL discovered Mills & Boon®, her life-long addiction to reading crystallised into an exciting new career writing Medical™ Romance. Her characters are probably the outcome of her varied lifestyle, which includes working as a clerk, typist, nurse and infant teacher. She enjoys dressmaking and cooking at her Leicestershire home. Her family includes a husband, son and daughter, an exuberant yellow Labrador and two slightly crazed cockatiels. She currently works with a team of tutors at her local education centre to provide creative writing workshops for people interested in exploring their own writing ambitions.
CONTENTS
THE ring tone from Katie’s mobile phone sounded, growing louder and more insistent with each passing second. She frowned, flipping open the phone and peering down at the screen in front of her.
What now? Was it totally impossible for her to have five minutes of peace and quiet to enable her to think things through, without someone desperately seeking her attention or needing her to do something for them right away?
Then again, the whole day had been a disaster from start to finish, hadn’t it, so why should anything change now? From the moment she had arrived for work at the rehab centre that morning, things had been going steadily downhill.
First there had been the discovery that one of the workmen on site had drilled through a water pipe, and as if that wasn’t enough to put the seal on the day, shortly afterwards one of the builders doing the renovations had taken a nasty tumble from the main roof.
It was bad enough that the poor man had broken his fall on a lower sloping timber roof and then crashed through it into the patients’
