Marion Lennox - Wildfire Island Docs - The Man She Could Never Forget / The Nurse Who Stole His Heart / Saving Maddie's Baby / A Sheikh to Capture Her Heart / The Fling That Changed Everything / A Child to Open Their Hearts

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The Man She Could Never Forget by Meredith WebberReturning to Wildfire Island is bittersweet for Nurse Caroline Lockhart. It stopped feeling like home the moment her first love, Keanu Russell, walked out of her life. Keanu can’t change the past, but maybe he can convince her they do have a future…The Nurse Who Stole His Heart by Alison RobertsLeaving Anahera Kopu was the hardest thing Dr Luke Wilson ever did. He was torn by duty and desire, and his decision devastated them both. Now Luke’s reappearance on Wildfire Island turns Anahera’s life upside down. She has something even more precious to guard. Their daughter!Saving Maddie’s Baby by Marion LennoxMaddie Haddon doesn’t hesitate to run into a crumbling goldmine to save a friend. But when she’s trapped, it’s her turn to be saved… Dr Josh Campbell is stunned to be called to rescue his ex-wife – and to discover that she’s on the brink of labour! Can he save Maddie and her baby…and heal their broken marriage too?A Sheikh to Capture Her Heart by Meredith WebberAfter tragedy drove her to Wildfire Island, surgeon Sarah Watson is ready to live again – starting with an affair with the mysterious Harry! But he’s running from his own past – as Sheikh of Ambelia! When their fling turns into more, Sarah and Harry must choose: keep running or stand firm…together.The Fling That Changed Everything by Alison RobertsParamedic Lia Roselli’s Wildfire Island job is a dream come true – but she isn’t expecting to fall in lust with her new boss, Dr Sam Taylor! Romantic entanglement is the last thing on Sam’s mind – he’s been badly burned by divorce – but there’s no denying the passion between them. Will the temptation of Lia change everything?A Child to Open Their Hearts by Marion LennoxRescued orphan Joni is Hettie de Lacey’s last chance to be a mum… But to keep him she needs Dr Max Lockhart’s help. Max’s life is already in turmoil when he’s struck by desire for beautiful Hettie. Yet how can he walk away when everything about Hettie and Joni compels him to stay?

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‘For heaven’s sake, we’ve barely spent ten hours alone with each other and the gossip mill has us …’

She didn’t have the words she needed.

‘Practically married?’ Maddie kindly put in.

Caroline sighed. Well, Keanu was married, just to somebody else, so no matter what island gossip suggested a real marriage between herself and Keanu wasn’t even an outside possibility for the near future.

‘Things haven’t got quite that far,’ she muttered, unwilling to share more with a virtual stranger.

‘Well, there’s still time,’ Maddie said. ‘Now, didn’t Sam say you could take a break? Go home.’

Home.

The island was home to her and she’d been so happy here since her return. Disturbed by the problems, of course, and confused by her attraction to Keanu, but none of that had spoiled the feeling that she was back where she belonged.

Home.

Keanu.

What was he thinking?

Caroline sighed and headed up to the house, using the track past the lagoon, thinking a swim might clear her head.

But up at the house the bookwork beckoned. She hadn’t got the maintenance and other day-to-day working figures of the mine from Reuben. Hoping he’d still be in the office there, organising the fencing off of the mine, she headed down the steep steps once again.

Keeping busy to keep her mind off Keanu.

But he was already there, sitting with Reuben in the shed.

Why wouldn’t he be?

No reason, but something about the way the pair of them looked at her made her feel uneasy.

Keanu was the first to speak.

‘We’re just sorting out something here, Caro,’ he said, and for some reason his voice sounded tight.

As if they’d been discussing her?

Of course they wouldn’t have been …

‘I’ll see you later at the house,’ he added, and knowing a dismissal when she heard it, she turned and headed back up the steps.

But halfway up she saw the faint marking of an old track, grassy now, and grown over with enthusiastic tropical vines and plants.

Had she been thinking of the grotto that she noticed it?

She certainly hadn’t the last time she’d climbed the steps.

But her feet were already on the barely there track, picking their way through the tangled regrowth, quickening her pace where the track was clear but taking her time to find a way around where thorn bushes formed a barrier.

Hot and sticky, not to mention covered in burrs, she finally reached the pool where the water cascading down from the lagoon came to rest before trickling on past the village to the sea.

She breathed in the humid air, catching scents she couldn’t quite identify, resting for a moment before turning towards the waterfall.

‘You’re being silly,’ she told herself, speaking the words aloud in the hope they might stop this trek back into the past.

Didn’t work, and she kept going, arriving eventually at the hidden space behind the waterfall, the water making music all around her, the thick fern growth giving the space a special magic.

He’d married someone else.

She told herself this was okay, only to be expected—of course he would have married, and it was only the small child she’d once been that was bleating But he’s mine deep inside her head.

She sat on a rock, her clothes damp from spray, and tried to make sense of her life as it was—not as she’d once imagined it would be.

‘Caro, are you in there?’

Keanu’s voice.

How had he guessed?

And of course it wasn’t anything to do with linked thoughts.

‘Caro,’ he called again, and this time she knew she’d have to answer.

‘I’m in the grotto,’ she called, and within minutes he was there beside her, sitting on what had always been ‘his’ rock.

‘How did you know?’ she asked.

‘It was obvious that someone had been along the old track and as you were the only one stupid enough to be coming down here on your own, I just followed your trail.’

‘Stupid enough?’ she demanded, angry but not sure whether it was because her thinking time had been interrupted or because his presence always caused her tension.

‘There could have been a landslip or a bit of the track washed away.’

‘Well, there wasn’t, and I’m quite safe, so you can go off and do whatever you were planning to do with Reuben.’

‘Which was to come and see you,’ Keanu told her, not as excited now as he’d been earlier, not quite as sure she was going to like the idea. And he’d already decided that now was not the time to mention his divorce. Other matters were more urgent after all.

‘I was talking to Reuben about the mine. I talked to the elders about it yesterday, and spoke to your father this morning. Something you’d said about finding someone to invest in it—once we knew how much we needed—sparked a kind of shadow of an idea in my head, and it wasn’t until yesterday at the funeral that I worked out what it was.’

He paused, waiting for a comment, perhaps a little excitement, or even a cool ‘And?’

But there was no response so, feeling even more uncertain, he ploughed on.

‘Reuben isn’t the only islander with a son making good money on the mainland, so it seemed to me that the islanders themselves might like to invest in the mine, form a company of some sort, a co-op perhaps—and take it over.’

‘Take it over?’

Caro’s voice was scratchy.

‘Completely?’

‘That’s why I had to talk to Max. I knew he’d know which way to go, the company or whatever, and of course he’d have to agree to the idea.’

‘And he did? He’s happy for the islanders to take over the mine?’

Keanu was worried now. He’d really expected excitement that he’d sorted out the problem, perhaps a little hesitation as Caro considered it. But not this flat, unemotional questioning.

Unable to work it out, he went with answering.

‘Yes, of course. He was annoyed he hadn’t thought of it himself. Of course, it can’t happen overnight, but within maybe six months we could have the mine up and running again and money going into the hospital—that would still be part of the arrangement—with the shareholders benefiting as well.’

‘And you never thought to talk to me about this?’

Not flat and unemotional now—no, now she was upset, although he couldn’t fathom why.

‘There’s been no time,’ he said, hoping to sooth whatever was bothering her. ‘As you can imagine there’s still so much to do. It’s mainly been just contacting people.’

It was hard to see her expression in the gloom, but he saw the way she stood up, and knew from the way she held her body that she’d be glaring down at him.

‘Contacting everyone but me!’ she said. ‘Do I not count? Wasn’t I part of this save-the-mine project from the beginning? Wasn’t I the one who got the books and put the figures together? Then suddenly it’s all “Don’t worry your little head about it, the men will fix it” and you don’t even mention it to me?’

He stood too, and put a hand on her shoulder—a hand that was quickly shrugged off.

‘Caro—’ he began.

But she was already walking away, pausing only to say, ‘You could have mentioned it as we sat on the swing, as we talked about love and what love was. I thought it was sharing, doing things together—not everything, that would be silly—but this was a joint project at the beginning, then suddenly it was all yours. I don’t know how to feel, Keanu. I don’t even know why I feel the way I do, when obviously it’s the ideal solution for the mine, but right now I just have to get away by myself and try to work out what I really want from love.’

And with that she disappeared from the grotto, not going back along the track but climbing the rocks at the side of the waterfall.

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