Caroline Anderson - The Rebel of Penhally Bay

Dear Reader

When I was asked to kick off the latest round of Penhally stories I was delighted—not least because it meant working again with two of my favourite authors, Kate Hardy and Margaret McDonagh, and ‘meeting’ Anne Fraser, who is relatively new to Medical™ Romance. We all worked together really closely on this little collection, because not only were there the interlinking stories in these four books, but also the whole existing infrastructure of Penhally Bay and St Piran, which had over the last year or so become entirely real to those of us involved. It was a chance to revisit old friends, to bring in new ones and to spend more time (sadly only in my head!) in a place I’ve grown to love.

It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to work with people I’ve come to call friends, and a chance to write a really involving and emotionally challenging story. Both Sam and Gemma have suffered life-changing challenges. One drove them apart; the other has brought them back together. But can they really forgive and forget? This is the story of their journey, and I hope you get as much pleasure from reading it as I had writing it. I give it to you with my love and best wishes.

If you’re revisiting Penhally, welcome back, and if this is your first trip, I hope you’ll love being here as much as I do.

Caroline

Caroline Andersonhas the mind of a butterfly. She’s been a nurse, a secretary, a teacher, run her own soft-furnishing business, and now she’s settled on writing. She says, ‘I was looking for that elusive something. I finally realised it was variety, and now I have it in abundance. Every book brings new horizons and new friends, and in between books I have learned to be a juggler. My teacher husband John and I have two beautiful and talented daughters, Sarah and Hannah, umpteen pets, and several acres of Suffolk that nature tries to reclaim every time we turn our backs!’ Caroline also writes for the Mills & Boon ®Romance series.

Recent titles by the same author:

Medical™ Romance

THE VALTIERI MARRIAGE DEAL

A MUMMY FOR CHRISTMAS

THEIR MIRACLE BABY *CHRISTMAS EVE BABY *

Mills & Boon® Romance

TWO LITTLE MIRACLES

THE SINGLE MUM AND THE TYCOON

HIS PREGNANT HOUSEKEEPER

* Brides of Penhally Bay

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MILLS & BOON ®

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For Clare, who has walked this road, for Dan and the children, who’ve held her hand along the way, and for the countless others who walk it with her. Safe journey.

BRIDES OF PENHALLY BAY

Bachelor doctors become husbands and fathers—

in a place where hearts are made whole.

Look out for these four books set in the picturesque town of Penhally, nestled on the rugged Cornish coast.

This month we’re back in Penhally as bad-boy doc Sam Cavendish tries to win back his long-lost wife… The Rebel of Penhally Bay by Caroline Anderson

Next month midwife Annie meets gorgeous Spanish doctor Dr Raphael Castillo, and one magical night leads to one little miracle… Spanish Doctor, Pregnant Midwife by Anne Fraser

In December there’s a real treat in store as gorgeous high-flying heart surgeon James arrives in Penhally! Falling for the Playboy Millionaire by Kate Hardy

And in January there’s a new GP in town when Italian doctor and single father Luca d’Azzaro brings his twin babies to Penhally A Mother for the Italian’s Twins by Margaret McDonagh

Welcome back to Penhally Bay!

Mills & Boon ®Medical™ Romance welcomes you back to the picturesque town of Penhally, nestled on the rugged Cornish coast! With sandy beaches and breathtaking landscapes Penhally is a warm, bustling community, cared for by the Penhally Bay Surgery team, led by the distinguished and commanding Dr Nick Tremayne.

We’re bringing you four new books set in

this idyllic coastal town, where fishing boats

bob up and down in the bay, friendly faces line

the cobbled streets and romance flutters on

the Cornish sea breeze! We’ve got gorgeous

Mediterranean heroes, top-notch city surgeons,

and the return of Penhally’s very own

bad-boy rebel! But that’s not all…

We step back into the life of enigmatic,

guarded hero Dr Nick Tremayne, and

nurse Kate Althorpe—the one woman who

has stolen Nick’s heart and the only woman

he won’t allow himself to love! Dr Nick’s

unquestionable professional skill and dedication

to the Penhally Bay Surgery hide his private

pain—his is a story that will pierce your heart.

So turn the page and meet them for yourself…

And if you’ve never visited Penhally before, step right in and enjoy Medical™ Romance’s most popular miniseries. There is a world of romantic treats awaiting you.

HE WASN’T concentrating.

If he’d been concentrating, he might have seen it, but he wasn’t. He was miles away, in Cornwall, thanks to his mother and the letter he’d just been handed on his way out of the hospital.

It was all the usual blah.

Hope you’re well, Jamie’s done well in his exams, goodness knows how, he’s so idle, who does that remind you of? Oh, well, if he turns out as well as you he’ll be all right but why you want to bury yourself in Africa, goodness knows. I wish you were here, you could keep him in order…

Fat chance of that. They were like peas in a pod, and the only thing that would keep Jamie in order was Jamie, as Sam very well knew.

But then the letter changed.

I’ve seen Gemma again, by the way, and she asked after you. I can’t believe it’s ten years since you had that fling with her. You’ve hardly been back since, but maybe you’ll come now, with her here. Bit of an incentive for you—more interesting than your boring old mother. She’s a brilliant practice nurse, and still single, though I can’t imagine why when she’s so gorgeous, but there doesn’t seem to be anyone else around for her and she seemed very keen to hear all about you. You missed a chance there, Sam. Maybe you should come home and take up where you left off…

He hadn’t read the rest. He’d screwed it up, hurled it into the bin and stalked out into the sun. Damn. He’d meant to leave before dawn, but what with one thing and another, and now the bloody letter…

The bike was loaded, stocked up for the run to the makeshift little clinic thirty miles away, and he had enough to do without distractions. He really— really !—didn’t need to be thinking about Gemma, or that summer all those years ago. Ten, for God’s sake. A whole decade. Ten long, lonely years. And he hadn’t missed his chance, he’d had it snatched away from him—

‘Oh, dammit to hell.’

He kicked the starter viciously, dropped the bike forwards off the stand and straddled it while he fastened his helmet. Why the hell was she back in Penhally? And why, more to the point, was she working as a practice nurse ? So much for her dedication to medicine—but that was just par for the course, really, wasn’t it? After all, she hadn’t stuck to him, either.