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Special Deliveries: Wanted: A Daddy: Dr. Dark and Far Too Delicious / Royal Rescue / Father by Choice
CAROL MARINELLI
Lisa Childs
Amanda Berry
Dr. Dark and Far Too DeliciousJasmine Phillips is proving that there is life after divorce and it’s busy! There simply isn’t room in the E.R. nurse and single mum’s day for an attraction to Dr Jed Devlin.Jasmine’s re-built her heart, as well as her life, but can she risk it crumbling again in the hands of this oh-so delicious doc? Living in the same town, working at the same hospital, the temptation is getting harder to resist…Royal RescueHidden away for more than fourteen years, Thea James was presumed dead by most—killed in the fire that burned the royal palace. But Ronin Parrish knows the truth…and so does the person who murdered Thea’s father, the king. Ronin takes his new duty as Thea’s bodyguard seriously. After all, she’s the only one who can clear his father of the king’s murder. It doesn’t matter that the princess’s beauty and strength draw him to her. To a commoner like him, she can never be more than a mission. Now he’s in a race to restore the princess to her rightful place on the throne before the unknown killer prematurely ends her reign.Father by ChoiceA family was the last thing workaholic Brady Ward had ever planned on. So after eight years abroad, he was shocked when a blast from his passionate past walked into his office—and informed him that he was a daddy. Now he was faced with a choice: to keep climbing the ladder of success, or build a life with the daughter he left behind.Maggie Brown wanted their little girl to know her father, but bringing a man as ambitious as Brady into their lives is a huge risk, one she wasn't sure she should take for Amber or herself. Because even after eight years, he still got her heart racing like no one else. Yet would he really give up the corporate lifestyle in the big city for life in a sleepy small town? Maybe if he realized that family was a gift that only came along once in a lifetime….
Special Deliveries: Wanted: A Daddy
Dr Dark and Far Too Delicious
Carol Marinelli
Royal Rescue
Lisa Childs
Father by Choice
Amanda Berry
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Table of Contents
Cover (#ua24ae7d2-30de-53e7-972a-eb8b70dee9f4)
Title Page (#ue685d5fb-6acc-5713-87eb-12f736b1092a)
Dr Dark and Far Too Delicious (#uabe2e026-33e8-57b5-a972-ba83a6c352aa)
About the Author (#u375d5ccd-2375-574a-a80a-00dcf6cf209e)
CHAPTER ONE (#uf4f69ac8-b0ba-5ce8-a18c-9afabc37d1be)
CHAPTER TWO (#u44759cf2-ace9-51f5-a248-86fc67f715ad)
CHAPTER THREE (#u4a3de9e2-39f3-5ce0-a683-b269611381b4)
CHAPTER FOUR (#uaaf8e089-bf0c-5f16-a7a4-26d350acda19)
CHAPTER FIVE (#ue5382f01-ded2-5318-b6d0-92b78a2f99af)
CHAPTER SIX (#u00b1e4c1-9e5a-5968-927a-c1b6fc4fb5cd)
CHAPTER SEVEN (#u683d7c9e-3ded-52a3-a201-326e49fb68fa)
CHAPTER EIGHT (#u8a43e061-c6c6-5cbd-938e-0ade3f67765a)
CHAPTER NINE (#u93cd5fe8-295a-59d2-b1fb-1ea188a23309)
CHAPTER TEN (#u95239dab-3932-5229-a256-9a2de82b2ff6)
CHAPTER ELEVEN (#u72b97a65-f148-5b02-bb38-5b097d30abd7)
CHAPTER TWELVE (#u9e8397a2-bb8f-540e-b021-7010f53fb91b)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#u3946efe5-3d88-5cd8-bd61-8b0611acac76)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN (#u7dc92b4c-c880-5be9-90fb-05790fbff3e0)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN (#u96c56ce6-7fc7-561a-84ee-a7d684069191)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN (#u4bc85afd-943b-56c1-8e02-d6928c334257)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
Royal Rescue (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Dedication (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter One (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Five (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)
Father by Choice (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Dedication (#litres_trial_promo)
Prologue (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter One (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Five (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
Dr Dark and Far Too Delicious (#ulink_67290cf3-dc90-5772-b658-7812b3bc42a1)
CAROL MARINELLI recently filled in a form asking for her job title. Thrilled to be able to put down her answer, she put ‘writer’. Then it asked what Carol did for relaxation and she put down the truth—‘writing’. The third question asked for her hobbies. Well, not wanting to look obsessed, she crossed her fingers and answered ‘swimming’—but given that the chlorine in the pool does terrible things to her highlights, I’m sure you can guess the real answer!
CHAPTER ONE (#ulink_5751f395-f8e7-5ab3-8b4d-71baa084331a)
JUST CONCENTRATE ON WORK.
Jed said it over and over as he ran along the damp beach.
He ran daily, or tried to, depending on work commitments, but as much as he could Jed factored running into his day—it served as both his exercise and his relaxation, helped him to focus and to clear his head.
Just concentrate on work, he repeated, because after the last two hellish years he really did need to do just that.
Jed looked along the bay. The morning was a hazy one and he couldn’t make out the Melbourne skyline in the distance. Not for the first time he questioned whether he had been right to take the position at the Peninsula Hospital or if he should have gone for a more prestigious city one.
Jed loved nothing more than a big city hospital—he had worked and trained at a large teaching hospital in Sydney and had assumed, when he had applied for jobs in Melbourne, that the city was where he would end up, yet the interview at Peninsula Hospital that he had thought would be a more a cursory one had seen him change his mind.
It wasn’t a teaching hospital but it was certainly a busy one—it served as a major trauma centre and had an NICU and ICU and Jed had liked the atmosphere at Peninsula, as well as the proximity to the beach. Perhaps the deciding factor, though, had been that he had also been told, confidentially, that one of the consultants was retiring and a position would be opening up in the not-too-distant future. His career had been building up to an emergency consultant position and, his disaster of a personal life aside, it was where he was ready to be. When Jed had handed in his notice six months ago an offer had been made and he’d been asked to reconsider leaving, but Jed had known then that he had to get away, that he had to start again.
But with new rules in place this time.
Jed missed not just Sydney and the hospital he had trained and worked at but his family and friends—it had been the first birthday of Luke, his newest nephew, yesterday, another thing he hadn’t been able to get to, another family gathering he had missed, when before, even if he hadn’t been able to get there on the day, he’d have dropped by over the weekend.
A phone call to a one-year-old wasn’t exactly the same.
But the decision to move well away had surely been the right one.
Still he questioned it, still he wondered if he had overreacted and should have just stayed in Sydney and hoped it would work out, assumed it was all sorted.
What a mess.
