Sydney Harbour Hospital: Lexi's Secret. Melanie Milburne

       Praise for Melanie Milburne who also writes for Mills & Boon^® Modern™ Romance:

      ‘Expertly blending powerful emotions with red-hot sensuality, poignant romance and nail-biting drama, HIS POOR LITTLE GIRL is an exceptional tale of lost love, courage and redemption from one of the most accomplished writers of Mills and Boon^® Modern™ Romance!’ —Cataromance

       Praise for Scarlet Wilson’s debut in Mills & Boon® Modern™ Romance:

      ‘Stirring, emotional and wonderfully absorbing, IT STARTED WITH A PREGNANCY is an impressive debut novel from a fabulous new voice in category romance: Scarlet Wilson!’

      —Cataromance

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

       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!

      Sydney Harbour

      Hospital:

      Lexi’s Secret

      Melanie Milburne

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      To Ricki Peres for her friendship and support, and also for her help in

      the research for this novel in the field of transplant surgery.

      Thank you!

       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!)

      In February new nurse Lily got caught up

      in the hotbed of hospital gossip in

      SYDNEY HARBOUR HOSPITAL: LILY’S SCANDAL by Marion Lennox

      And gorgeous paediatrician Teo came to single mum Zoe’s rescue in

      SYDNEY HARBOUR HOSPITAL: ZOE’S BABY by Alison Roberts

      In March sexy Sicilian playboy Luca finally met his match in

      SYDNEY HARBOUR HOSPITAL: LUCA’S BAD GIRL by Amy Andrews

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

      SYDNEY HARBOUR HOSPITAL: TOM’S REDEMPTION by Fiona Lowe

      This month 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!—in

      SYDNEY HARBOUR HOSPITAL: BELLA’S WISHLIST by Emily Forbes

      Single mum Emily gives no-strings-attached surgeon Marco

      a reason to stay in July:

      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 Mills & Boon^® Medical™ Romance.

      A collection impossible to resist!

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

      CHAPTER ONE

      IT WAS the worst possible way to run into an ex, Lexi thought. There was only one parking space left in the Sydney Harbour Hospital basement car park and although, strictly speaking, she shouldn’t have been parking there since she wasn’t a doctor or even a nurse, she was running late with some things for her sister, and it was just too tempting not to grab the last ‘Doctors Only’ space between a luxury sedan and a shiny red sports car that looked as if it had just been driven out of the showroom.

      She opened her door and winced when she heard the bang-scrape of metal against metal.

      And then she saw him.

      He was sitting in the driver’s seat, his broad-spanned hands gripping the steering-wheel with white-knuckled force, glaring at her furiously when recognition suddenly hit him. Lexi saw the quick spasm of his features, as if the sight of her had been like a punch to the face.

      She felt the same punch deep and low in her belly as she encountered that dark brown espresso coffee gaze. Her throat closed over as if a large hand had gripped her and was squeezing the breath right out of her. Her heart pounded with a sickening thud, skip, thud, skip, thud that made her feel as if she had just run up the fire escape of a towering skyscraper on a single breath.

      It was so unexpected.

      No warning.

      No preparation.

      Why hadn’t she been told he was back in the country? Why hadn’t she been told he was working here? He clearly was, otherwise why would he be parking in the doctors’ car park unless—like her—he had flouted the rules for his own convenience?

      OK, so this was the time to play it cool. She could do that. It was her specialty. She was known all over the Sydney social circuit for her PhD in charm.

      She shimmied out of the tight space between their cars and sent him a megawatt smile. ‘Hi, Sam,’ she said breezily. ‘How are things?’

      Sam Bailey unfolded his tall length from the sports car, closing the driver’s door with a resounding click that more or less summed up his personality, Lexi thought—decisive, to the point, focussed on the task at hand.

      ‘Alexis,’ he said. No “How are you?” or “Nice to see you” or even “Hello”, just her full name, which nobody ever called her, not even her father in one of his raging rants or her mother in one of her gin-soaked ramblings.

      Lexi’s winning smile faded slightly and her hands fidgeted with the strap of her designer bag hanging over