Sydney Harbour Hospital: Lily's Scandal. Marion Lennox

      Welcome to the world of Sydney Harbour Hospital (or SHH … for short— because secrets never stay hidden for long!)

      Looking out over cosmopolitan Sydney Harbour, Australia’s premier teaching hospital is a hive of round-the-clock activity—with a very active hospital grapevine.

      With the most renowned (and gorgeous!) doctors in Sydney working side by side, professional and sensual tensions run sky-high—there’s always plenty of romantic rumours to gossip about …

       Who’s been kissing who in the on-call room? What’s going on between legendary heart surgeon Finn Kennedy and tough-talking A&E doctor Evie Lockheart? And what’s wrong with Finn?

      Find out in this enthralling new eight-book continuity from Mills & Boon^® Medical™ Romance—indulge yourself with eight helpings of romance, emotion and gripping medical drama!

      Sydney Harbour Hospital From saving lives to sizzling seduction, these doctors are the very best!

       Dear Reader

      When I was asked to write for the Sydney Harbour Hospital series I was blown away with excitement. In my non-biased (?) opinion Sydney is the most beautiful city in the world, and Sydney Harbour Hospital is the most awesome hospital. Let’s face it: it’s been created by eight great Aussie authors—so what’s not to love? Our city’s fantastic, our staff are fantastic, the drama, heartache, laughter, gossip, and the sheer love of life engendered by the staff of SHH will suck you in as it’s sucked me in. I loved it from the moment I read the outline. This series will catch your heartstrings like no other. Oh, and did I mention I think it’s good? :-)

      I adore the charismatic Dr Finn Kennedy, whose story weaves through the whole series, but most of all I love my Luke and my Lily. I hope they tug at your heartstrings as much as they tugged on mine.

      Happy reading!

       Marion Lennox

      Sydney Harbour

       Hospital: Lily’s Scandal

      Marion Lennox

      

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

       With thanks to the fabulous Alison Roberts— a gorgeous friend who wears truly awesome boots! And to the rest of the authors in this series— you’re brilliant to work with and I love you all. Aussie and New Zealand authors rock!

       Sydney Harbour Hospital

      Sexy surgeons, dedicated doctors, scandalous secrets, on-call dramas …

      Welcome to the world of Sydney Harbour Hospital (or SHH … for short—because secrets never stay hidden for long!)

      This month enjoy our fantastic medical duo as

       new nurse Lily gets caught up in the hot-bed of hospital gossip in SYDNEY HARBOUR HOSPITAL: LILY’S SCANDAL by Marion Lennox

      Then gorgeous paediatrician Teo

       comes to single mum Zoe’s rescue in SYDNEY HARBOUR HOSPITAL: ZOE’S BABY by Alison Roberts

      Don’t miss sexy Sicilian playboy Luca

       as he finally meets his match this March SYDNEY HARBOUR HOSPITAL: LUCA’S BAD GIRL by Amy Andrews

      Then in April Hayley opens Tom’s eyes to love in

       SYDNEY HARBOUR HOSPITAL: TOM’S REDEMPTION by Fiona Lowe

      Join heiress Lexi as she learns to put the past behind her in May …

       SYDNEY HARBOUR HOSPITAL: LEXI’S SECRET by Melanie Milburne

      In June adventurer Charlie helps shy Bella fulfil her dreams—

      and find love on the way! SYDNEY HARBOUR HOSPITAL: BELLA’S WISHLIST by Emily Forbes

      Then single mum Emily gives no-strings-attached surgeon Marco

       a reason to stay in SYDNEY HARBOUR HOSPITAL: MARCO’S TEMPTATION by Fiona McArthur

      And finally join us in August as Ava and James

       realise their marriage really is worth saving in SYDNEY HARBOUR HOSPITAL: AVA’S RE-AWAKENING by Carol Marinelli

      And not forgetting Sydney Harbour Hospital’s legendary heart surgeon

       Finn Kennedy. This brooding maverick keeps his women on hospital rotation … But can new doc Evie Lockheart unlock the secrets to his guarded heart? Find out in this enthralling new eight-book continuity from Medical™ Romance.

      A collection impossible to resist!

       These books are also available in ebook format from www.millsandboon.co.uk

      CHAPTER ONE

      LUKE WILLIAMS had been operating since dawn. All he wanted was bed. Instead he was coping with stinking tallow, teenage hysteria and the director of surgery and the representative of the founders of this hospital thinking pistols at dawn.

      ‘You said multiple burns. Four children. I’ve spent most of the night with a kid with a collapsed lung, and you wake me for this …’

      Luke’s boss, Finn Kennedy, the taciturn head of surgery at Sydney Harbour Hospital, was practically rigid with fury, but Dr Evie Lockheart, emergency physician, was giving it right back.

      ‘I was told four children fell into a vat of boiling tallow from the meatworks. You think that’s not worth getting you and Luke down here? I wanted the best.’

      ‘Luke has other things to do as well. Like sleeping. And boiling? It must have been barely warm. You should have checked.’

      ‘And waste precious time? Pull your head in, Kennedy.’

      Luke sucked his breath in at that. These guys were powerhouses in this hospital. Evie Lockheart, of Endowing-the-Hospital-with-Serious-Money Lockheart fame, and Finn Kennedy, the Do-Not-Cross Director of Surgery, had personalities to match their egos. Powerful intellects, serious commitment, serious … conflict. Conflict getting worse.

      Could he back away?

      No.

      School holidays. A meat-processing operation out in the suburbs, with inadequate security. Four teenaged boys, fifteen or sixteen, egging each other to walk the plank—on rollerblades!—over a two-thousand-gallon vat of tallow being rendered down.

      They were lucky the heat had only just been turned on. They’d fallen into the equivalent of a bath that was a bit too hot.

      Through the office window, the kids and their frightened parents looked a pool of misery. The stench was unbelievable, but it could have been much worse. A pert little blonde nurse was swabbing tallow from one kid’s legs, exposing only minor scalding.

      He couldn’t leave, he decided, not until things had calmed down. Meanwhile he had a choice. Join in the fight. Look at the kids. Look at the nurse.

      This was a no-brainer.

      The woman was cute, he thought, even in her ER scrubs. Her blonde curls were wisping from under her cap. As he watched, she tucked them back in, and then glanced through the window.

      He caught her gaze and saw laughter, quickly suppressed.

      She’d be seeing the conflict, he thought,