Dianne Drake - New York Doc, Thailand Proposal / The Surgeon's Baby Bombshell

Starting with non-fiction, DIANNE DRAKEpenned hundreds of articles and seven books under the name JJ Despain. In 2001 she began her romance-writing career with The Doctor Dilemma . In 2005 Dianne’s first Medical Romance, Nurse in Recovery , was published, and with more than twenty novels to her credit she has enjoyed writing ever since.

DEANNE ANDERSwas reading romance while her friends were still reading Nancy Drew, and she knew she’d hit the jackpot when she found a shelf of Mills & Boon Presents in her local library. Years later she discovered the fun of writing her own. Deanne lives in Florida, with her husband and their spoiled Pomeranian. During the day she works as a nursing supervisor. With her love of everything medical and romance, writing for Mills & Boon Medical Romance is a dream come true.

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Her Secret Miracle

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Reunited with Her Army Doc

Healing Her Boss’s Heart

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New York Doc, Thailand Proposal & The Surgeon’s Baby Bombshell

Dianne Drake and Deanne Anders

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ISBN: 978-0-008-90193-6

NEW YORK DOC, THAILAND PROPOSAL & THE SURGEON’S BABY BOMBSHELL

New York Doc, Thailand Proposal © 2019 Dianne Despain The Surgeon’s Baby Bombshell © 2019 Denise Chavers

Published in Great Britain 2019

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Cover

About the Authors

Booklist

Title Page

Copyright

Note to Readers

New York Doc, Thailand Proposal

Back Cover Text

Dedication

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

EPILOGUE

The Surgeon’s Baby Bombshell

Back Cover Text

Dedication

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

EPILOGUE

About the Publisher

Dianne Drake

Worlds apart

But reunited by love!

Surgeons Layla and Arlo once shared a connection like no other, but they’re total opposites: Layla’s heart belongs to New York, while Arlo won’t ever work in a big-city hospital. Only, when Arlo’s remote practice needs her help, Layla finds herself heading out to Thailand! As they work side by side, Layla begins to see jungle life through Arlo’s eyes Is a proposal in paradise enough to give life together a second chance?

To Mike Cramer, one of the hardest-working

and best doctors I ever knew.

The world is a little less bright without you,

my friend. RIP.

“I KNOW WHAT we were, Mother. But two years deserves a better ending than what we had, and when this opportunity came”

Dr. Oliver Benedict, Layla Morrison’s boss, mentor and, yes, Arlo’s grandfather, had three spots open for volunteers—specifically the three candidates he was looking at to be his new assistant chief of surgery.

“No, I don’t know if Arlo knows I’m the one Ollie picked for this assignment. It’s only been five days from the time he gave me the nod until now, and Ollie specifically said communication with Arlo wasn’t always available. So, yes, I might be a surprise.”

But the need was legitimate. According to Ollie, Arlo was alone right now. His medical assistant had gone home to India for a while and after living with Arlo for two years herself, and listening to him talk about the way he wanted to practice medicine here, in Thailand, Layla knew what she was getting herself into.

Jungle medicine. Nothing easy. Nothing convenient. It was hard work. Sometimes backbreaking. And it was so embedded in Arlo’s heart it had caused their break-up. Two years into their relationship and the call of the jungle had beaten her.

“NO, I don’t know if this will give me a lock on a promotion, but it will finally give me some closure. We didn’t have that. It was too difficult at the end and we were both hurt. So, I’m hoping that this will help me, maybe even Arlo, finally move on.”

Layla had had one disastrous attempt at a relationship after Arlo and had compared everything Brad did against the way Arlo had done it. Nothing could compare, though, and now it was time to fix that so she could finally move on with her personal life since the professional side was rolling along quite nicely.