The Shy Nurse's Rebel Doc. Alison Roberts

      

      From playing it safe...

      To falling for her rebel boss!

      In this Bondi Bay Heroes story, ER nurse Samantha Braithwaite has learnt never to put limits on herself. But working with Dr. Blake Cooper is her biggest challenge yet. He thinks she’s shy, but that makes her more determined to prove she can make the Specialist Disaster Response team. And as days spill into nights, the chemistry they’ve tried to hide is about to explode!

      ALISON ROBERTS is a New Zealander, currently lucky enough to be living in the south of France. She is also lucky enough to write for the Mills & Boon Medical Romance line. A primary school teacher in a former life, she is now a qualified paramedic. She loves to travel and dance, drink champagne, and spend time with her daughter and her friends.

       Also by Alison Roberts

      Sleigh Ride with the Single Dad

       The Doctor’s Wife for Keeps

       Twin Surprise for the Italian Doc

      Bondi Bay Heroes collection

      The Shy Nurse’s Rebel Doc

       Finding His Wife, Finding a Son by Marion Lennox

      And look out for the next two books

      Healed by Her Army Doc by Meredith Webber Rescued by Her Mr Right

      Available September 2018

      Discover more at millsandboon.co.uk.

      The Shy Nurse’s Rebel Doc

      Alison Roberts

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      ISBN: 978-1-474-07523-7

      THE SHY NURSE’S REBEL DOC

      © 2018 Alison Roberts

      Published in Great Britain 2018

      by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF

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      For Linda and Meredith, with much love.

      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

       About the Author

       Booklist

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       CHAPTER ONE

       CHAPTER TWO

       CHAPTER THREE

       CHAPTER FOUR

       CHAPTER FIVE

       CHAPTER SIX

       CHAPTER SEVEN

       CHAPTER EIGHT

       CHAPTER NINE

       CHAPTER TEN

       Extract

       About the Publisher

       CHAPTER ONE

      IT BLINDSIDED HIM.

      Blake Cooper had just swung himself off his motorbike in his allotted ED staff parking space at Sydney’s Bondi Bayside Hospital and flipped up his visor. He should have been easing off his helmet, now, and reaching for the worn leather satchel in the side pannier but he wasn’t moving at all. His fingers felt like they were stuck to the sides of his helmet and his eyes were just as stuck.

      On that car...

      A gleaming, vintage MG roadster.

      Red.

      Of course it was red. It was a giant Dinky toy, come to life.

      His toy.

      And, there he was. Five years old again. Finding that shoebox full of treasure at the bottom of the carton of kitchen junk his mother had bought for virtually nothing from the charity shop clearance sale. There’d been more than a dozen of the tiny pre-loved metal vehicles but his absolute favourite