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Nine-Month Surprise
Jacqueline Diamond
This Teacher Is Learning Her Lessons!Ais for AdventureWhen schoolteacher Leah Morris tries to conquer the big city, she's thinking of her career. Except instead of a job, what she lands is one unforgettable encounter with a mystery man….Bis for BustedBack home a few weeks later, she discovers her enigmatic lover is none other than the town's new obstetrician, and now the gossips are busy adding two and two…Cis for CommitmentTroubled relationships have given both the teacher and the doctor a hundred reasons to stick to their no-strings-attached rule….Dis for DenialBut no tall tale can explain away their love or the precious new life they can't undo…
“I meant what I said about getting married.”
For a moment Leah resisted Will’s attempt to pull her toward him. But because she loved the tenderness with which he gathered her to his chest, she yielded.
She enjoyed the slight roughness of his throat and the way his cheek pressed against her hair. Maybe it wasn’t such a bad thing that he’d be visiting their child.
Impulsively, she stole a kiss. As his mouth moved against hers, a kind of enchantment flowed through Leah.
It took all her reserve to pull away. “Bad idea,” she said hoarsely.
“Not all that bad,” Will murmured.
Her mystery man from Texas was in her house. He’d kissed her again. He’d asked her to marry him.
She wondered how on earth they were going to work this out. One thing she knew for sure—if she didn’t land a new job in Seattle, she’d have to find one somewhere else.
Because she no longer trusted herself….
Dear Reader,
Nine-Month Surprise is the second of three books set in Downhome, Tennessee, a town that needs doctors and offers them a second chance—with dramatic and romantic results.
Many physicians today practice medicine in an environment worlds apart from the one in which my father served as a small-town doctor. He treated patients in rural Kentucky just prior to World War II, served in the army during the war and later became a physician in the small town of Menard, Texas. In later years he completed his residency in psychiatry and practiced in Nashville, Tennessee.
Today, medical treatment has become highly technological, subject to insurance restrictions and complicated by lawsuits. What I’ve created is an idealized situation, one that I believe many doctors would enjoy.
The story of Will and Leah involves a familiar theme—the unplanned baby—but to me it became fresh because these two strong characters made it their own. I hope you’ll enjoy it!
The third book in the series will focus on the relationship between Karen Lowell and Dr. Chris McRay. Although she once loved him, his testimony sent her brother to prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
If you enjoy this book, please e-mail me at jdiamondfriends@aol.com and visit my Web site at www.jacquelinediamond.com.
Happy reading!
Nine-Month Surprise
Jacqueline Diamond
www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)
In memory of Maurice Hyman, M.D.
Books by Jacqueline Diamond
HARLEQUIN AMERICAN ROMANCE
913—THE IMPROPERLY PREGNANT PRINCESS
962—DIAGNOSIS: EXPECTING BOSS’S BABY
971—PRESCRIPTION: MARRY HER IMMEDIATELY
978—PROGNOSIS: A BABY? MAYBE
1046—THE BABY’S BODYGUARD
1075—THE BABY SCHEME
1094—THE POLICE CHIEF’S LADY * (#litres_trial_promo)
Contents
Chapter One (#u42e17ba3-982c-54d2-bc16-63bac76dc952)
Chapter Two (#u529211b8-47d7-599c-b450-a88c45dc317b)
Chapter Three (#u0f93be1f-2143-55e1-93ff-efdeeae4f812)
Chapter Four (#uf4c85ded-5315-5d82-95fb-75e53969d414)
Chapter Five (#u94d94342-5f9c-5dce-8587-a740a1f83082)
Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter One
The moment the man with intense gray eyes walked into the country-western bar, Leah Morris sensed she was going to do something foolish.
Since arriving in Austin, Texas, two days earlier for job interviews, she felt like a different person from the shy teacher who’d spent most of her life in a small Tennessee town. She felt like the sort of woman who wasn’t afraid to talk to a stranger or even offer to buy him a drink.
Not that she planned to do it. The man’s confident air warned that he probably had either more ladies than he could handle or one special lady. Even so, when he scanned the noisy room, the pucker between his eyebrows made her long to soothe away his worries.
Leah twirled a strand of black hair around her finger and smiled. With an almost physical jolt, she noticed the man gazing in her direction.
His expression warmed as he studied her with new interest. His reaction gave Leah butterflies.
She tried to make an objective assessment. The fellow appeared to be in his mid-thirties, a few years older than she was. His dark-blond hair had probably once been thicker, and his intelligent, slightly creased face might have been boyish in his twenties. Now he was a man she wished she knew a whole lot better.
Embarrassed by her reaction, Leah sipped her margarita and pretended an interest in the bluegrass band sawing merrily away across the room. The whisper of a sophisticated male scent alerted her when the man approached.
Jacqueline Diamond
This Teacher Is Learning Her Lessons!Ais for AdventureWhen schoolteacher Leah Morris tries to conquer the big city, she's thinking of her career. Except instead of a job, what she lands is one unforgettable encounter with a mystery man….Bis for BustedBack home a few weeks later, she discovers her enigmatic lover is none other than the town's new obstetrician, and now the gossips are busy adding two and two…Cis for CommitmentTroubled relationships have given both the teacher and the doctor a hundred reasons to stick to their no-strings-attached rule….Dis for DenialBut no tall tale can explain away their love or the precious new life they can't undo…
“I meant what I said about getting married.”
For a moment Leah resisted Will’s attempt to pull her toward him. But because she loved the tenderness with which he gathered her to his chest, she yielded.
She enjoyed the slight roughness of his throat and the way his cheek pressed against her hair. Maybe it wasn’t such a bad thing that he’d be visiting their child.
Impulsively, she stole a kiss. As his mouth moved against hers, a kind of enchantment flowed through Leah.
It took all her reserve to pull away. “Bad idea,” she said hoarsely.
“Not all that bad,” Will murmured.
Her mystery man from Texas was in her house. He’d kissed her again. He’d asked her to marry him.
She wondered how on earth they were going to work this out. One thing she knew for sure—if she didn’t land a new job in Seattle, she’d have to find one somewhere else.
Because she no longer trusted herself….
Dear Reader,
Nine-Month Surprise is the second of three books set in Downhome, Tennessee, a town that needs doctors and offers them a second chance—with dramatic and romantic results.
Many physicians today practice medicine in an environment worlds apart from the one in which my father served as a small-town doctor. He treated patients in rural Kentucky just prior to World War II, served in the army during the war and later became a physician in the small town of Menard, Texas. In later years he completed his residency in psychiatry and practiced in Nashville, Tennessee.
Today, medical treatment has become highly technological, subject to insurance restrictions and complicated by lawsuits. What I’ve created is an idealized situation, one that I believe many doctors would enjoy.
The story of Will and Leah involves a familiar theme—the unplanned baby—but to me it became fresh because these two strong characters made it their own. I hope you’ll enjoy it!
The third book in the series will focus on the relationship between Karen Lowell and Dr. Chris McRay. Although she once loved him, his testimony sent her brother to prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
If you enjoy this book, please e-mail me at jdiamondfriends@aol.com and visit my Web site at www.jacquelinediamond.com.
Happy reading!
Nine-Month Surprise
Jacqueline Diamond
www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)
In memory of Maurice Hyman, M.D.
Books by Jacqueline Diamond
HARLEQUIN AMERICAN ROMANCE
913—THE IMPROPERLY PREGNANT PRINCESS
962—DIAGNOSIS: EXPECTING BOSS’S BABY
971—PRESCRIPTION: MARRY HER IMMEDIATELY
978—PROGNOSIS: A BABY? MAYBE
1046—THE BABY’S BODYGUARD
1075—THE BABY SCHEME
1094—THE POLICE CHIEF’S LADY * (#litres_trial_promo)
Contents
Chapter One (#u42e17ba3-982c-54d2-bc16-63bac76dc952)
Chapter Two (#u529211b8-47d7-599c-b450-a88c45dc317b)
Chapter Three (#u0f93be1f-2143-55e1-93ff-efdeeae4f812)
Chapter Four (#uf4c85ded-5315-5d82-95fb-75e53969d414)
Chapter Five (#u94d94342-5f9c-5dce-8587-a740a1f83082)
Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter One
The moment the man with intense gray eyes walked into the country-western bar, Leah Morris sensed she was going to do something foolish.
Since arriving in Austin, Texas, two days earlier for job interviews, she felt like a different person from the shy teacher who’d spent most of her life in a small Tennessee town. She felt like the sort of woman who wasn’t afraid to talk to a stranger or even offer to buy him a drink.
Not that she planned to do it. The man’s confident air warned that he probably had either more ladies than he could handle or one special lady. Even so, when he scanned the noisy room, the pucker between his eyebrows made her long to soothe away his worries.
Leah twirled a strand of black hair around her finger and smiled. With an almost physical jolt, she noticed the man gazing in her direction.
His expression warmed as he studied her with new interest. His reaction gave Leah butterflies.
She tried to make an objective assessment. The fellow appeared to be in his mid-thirties, a few years older than she was. His dark-blond hair had probably once been thicker, and his intelligent, slightly creased face might have been boyish in his twenties. Now he was a man she wished she knew a whole lot better.
Embarrassed by her reaction, Leah sipped her margarita and pretended an interest in the bluegrass band sawing merrily away across the room. The whisper of a sophisticated male scent alerted her when the man approached.
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