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Single Dad, Outback Wife
Wanted: wife and mother
Distinguished city surgeon Andrew
Montgomery is the new doctor of a small town, and the new guardian
to his young nephew Cory. Out of his depth in his role as a single
dad, he turns to beautiful nurse Georgina Lewis for help…
Andrew is enchanted by Georgina – she is
brilliant with Cory, devoted to her patients, and absolutely perfect
for him. Andrew never envisaged staying in the Australian Outback,
but now he’s not sure he wants his old life back. His future is
here, in the town that has become his home…with the woman who has
captured his heart…
BACHELOR DADS
Single Doctors…Single Fathers
Excerpt
He
watched her for a few more moments than gave himself a shake. This is
voyeuristic, Andrew Montgomery. Leave. Now. He stood to go, looking
back over his shoulder for one last glimpse and promptly slipped on some
loose rock and fell very inelegantly in a loud noisy heap flat on his
butt, cursing the entire way down.
Georgina heard the racket and flipped herself onto her tummy
then trod water. “Is somebody there?” she asked the now silent bush.
Andrew got to his feet slowly. “It’s just me,” he said,
supporting his back with his hands and testing his ability to walk. Now
he felt like a pervert.
Georgina stared at him stupidly for what seemed an age. What
the hell was Andrew doing there? Had he been watching her? She blushed.
I’m in my underwear! She glanced over to the rocky edge a few meters
away where her sarong and t-shirt were.
“Have you been here very long?” she asked, trying to be
indignant through her embarrassment.
“Long enough,” he admitted. He eased himself gently down the
flat boulders until he was standing at the edge of the pool near her
clothes. He knelt and dipped his hands into the water to wash the graze
where he had put out his hand to break his fall. “Hell! It’s freezing in
here,” he said.
Yes well I need to cool my feverish imagination down
somewhere after a night full of dreaming about you in a damn towel.
“It’s invigorating,” she lied.
“It’s arctic,” he said.
God, he was gorgeous. His blonde wavy hair, his blue eyes,
that damn sexy little scar. It didn’t seem fair that he was fully
clothed when she was practically naked in front of him. “Oh, go on, city
boy. Live a little,” she goaded.
“Right,” he snorted. “If I want to take an ice bath I’ll go
to Scandinavia,” he said, standing and examining his hand in a valiant
effort to not look at her and her still very visible, barely covered
upper half.
“Chicken,” she goaded again and flapped her arms in the water
while making clucking noises.
He chuckled. “Oh very mature.”
He was so...dressed. So neat and tidy and he was looking at
her from a superior height and she just wanted to see that smile wiped
off his face. The same smile he’d given her yesterday, expressing his
gratitude over Cory. The one he gave her when she found something he
couldn’t find or she handed him something before he’d even asked for it.
In such a primitive setting, the cool water stroking
seductive fingers across her skin, she’d never felt more like a woman.
She was naked and there was something between them that since yesterday
had only been enhanced. She wanted to see the heat she saw smouldering
in his eyes sometimes. Despite the futility of their relationship. Maybe
it was the water nymph in her, maybe it was the sense that for the
moment they were the only two people on earth. She swam around in
circles treading water flapping and clucking.
He looked down at her. Their gazes met and he saw the
challenge in her eyes. She was offering him something straight out of
one of his dreams. His heartbeat pounded in his ears. “If I get into
that water, you’re fair game,” he warned.
Georgina felt her skin break out in goose-bumps. Her nipples
tightened and strained against the fabric of her bra. His voice was low
and husky and sexy as hell. “You have to catch me first,” she goaded.
He saw her honey eyes liquefy to a smooth toffee as she
issued her dare. Right. He smiled at her triumphantly and before
he could second-guess himself he whisked his shirt off over his head. He
stopped, his chest heaving, his breath loud in his ears. He raised an
eyebrow at her giving the opportunity to call a halt to what was
becoming quite a dangerous little game. He could feel his blood rushing
though his veins, every cell in his body alive with anticipation. He
could feel his mouth watering in the knowledge that very soon, her mouth
would be under his.
Georgina swallowed and kept her gaze level with his. Did he
think she would back down? She could see his naked chest in her
peripheral vision, his flat male nipples beaded into tight marbles. “I
don’t think you’ve got it in you, city boy,” she said, her voice husky.
Andrew held her gaze. He unzipped his jeans and shucked his
shoes off one at a time using the opposite foot. He watched as her sure
little smile slipped ever so slightly. Then he pushed the denim off his
hips, down his legs and stepped out of its confines. His form fitting
underwear did nothing to hide - in fact, barely contained - an erection
that not even the thought of jumping into freezing water could dampen.
But he looked her straight in the eye and refused to be embarrassed.
Country girls needed to learn they shouldn’t play with fire.
From
"SINGLE DAD, OUTBACK WIFE" by Amy Andrews
Mills and
Boon® Medical Romance™ July 2007
ISBN:
978-0-263-85248-6
Copyright: © 2007 Amy Andrews
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Review
Single Dad, Outback Wife by Amy Andrews
July 07 UK , Aug 07 Aust
ISBN:
978-0-263-85248-6
Category: Medical Romance
Rating:
5 stars
Life for
Andrew Montgomery hasn’t been easy
lately and seeing as he’s new to a
small outback town but he certainly
never expected to meet someone like
Georgina Lewis, a nurse who knows
about tender loving care. George
knows all about tragedy but then so
does Andrew when he ends up as the
guardian of his young nephew, Cory.
Together these two will journey down
the path of rocky love but will it
end in happily ever after or
disaster as real life intrudes on
their budding romance.
This
book is an outstanding story of one
man’s unexpected desire to know a
woman of extraordinary abilities.
Reading about Andrew and George was
like watching a romantic movie
unfolding. Although their family
lives were so different, they also
knew about the affect tragedy could
have on their lives. I really loved
reading about this couple, even
though they knew that their
happiness had a time limit they
grasped at whatever fate had in
store for them after spending so
much time denying the attraction
between them. And I fell in love
with Andrew’s nephew, Cory. He just
made the whole book more real for
me. Amy Andrews is an author whose
books I could read over and over
again, and Single Dad, Outback Wife
is but one reason why.
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Sheryl
Cataromance Reviews
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