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The Baby That Changed Everything: A Baby to Heal Their Hearts / The Baby That Changed Her Life / The Surgeon's Baby Secret
Kate Hardy
Amber McKenzie
Louisa Heaton
The Baby That Changed EverythingA Baby To Heal Their HeartsSports doctor Jared Fraser won’t be swayed by Dr Bailey Randall’s interfering research, no matter how beautiful she is. But after one magical night…could Bailey’s shock pregnancy ultimately heal both their hearts?The Baby The Changed Her LifeWhen midwife Callie Taylor agreed to be the surrogate mother for her best friend, Dr Lucas Gold, she couldn’t have predicted that his marriage would fall apart exactly when she became pregnant with his child…or that she’d start to develop feelings for Lucas!The Surgeon’s Baby SecretSurgeon Erin Madden never expected to be able to have a baby! And she certainly never expected to fall pregnant from her whirlwind (and totally unforgettable!) romance with Dr Ryan Callum. But her precious little daughter, Jennie, is proof that dreams can come true….
KATE HARDY lives in Norwich, in the east of England, with her husband, two young children, one bouncy spaniel and too many books to count! When she’s not busy writing romance or researching local history, she helps out at her children’s schools. She also loves cooking—spot the recipes sneaked into her books! (They’re also on her website, along with extracts and stories behind the books.)
Kate’s always delighted to hear from readers, so do drop in to her website at www.katehardy.com (http://www.katehardy.com)
LOUISA HEATON first started writing romance at secondary school, and would take her stories in to show her friends, scrawled on lined A4 paper in a big red binder, with plenty of crossing out. She dreamt of romance herself, and after knowing her husband-to-be for only three weeks shocked her parents by accepting his marriage proposal and heading off to Surrey to live with him. Once there, she began writing romance again and discovered the wonderful world of Mills & Boon Medical Romance.
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AMBER MCKENZIE’s love of romance and all the drama a good romance entails began in her teenage years. After a lengthy university career, multiple degrees and one formal English class, she found herself happily employed as a physician and happily married to her medical school sweetheart.
Amber currently lives in Canada with her husband. She does her best to juggle her full-time medical practice with her love of writing and reading and other pursuits—from long-distance running to domestic goddess activities like cooking and quilting. Multi-tasking has become an art form and a way of life.
The Baby That Changed Everything
A Baby to Heal Their Hearts
Kate Hardy
The Baby That Changed Her Life
Louisa Heaton
The Surgeon’s Baby Secret
Amber McKenzie
www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)
ISBN: 978-1-474-08165-8
THE BABY THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
A Baby to Heal Their Hearts © 2015 Pamela Brooks The Baby That Changed Her Life © 2015 Louisa Heaton The Surgeon’s Baby Secret © 2015 Amber Whitford-McKenzie
Published in Great Britain 2018
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Table of Contents
Cover (#ud21b24c7-b9f1-592d-aa0b-b63da94f2e89)
About the Authors (#uc898b78b-e13b-5f09-aa5d-1a3631c2b309)
Title Page (#u63096afb-d3a9-53eb-97ff-bfed81dcd46a)
Copyright (#ub63bee1d-1039-5e9a-912f-b4cdf7d21980)
A Baby to Heal Their Hearts (#u14a82337-8861-519b-ae2c-ae0a951b0891)
Dedication (#uf345cce9-4b00-5e89-bbe6-40f35e57a98a)
CHAPTER ONE (#u80d37ff5-eb41-5283-be3a-fed7cbe892e1)
CHAPTER TWO (#uf34dd82f-6dd9-5060-b385-5f5e7e690648)
CHAPTER THREE (#u1996346e-ca21-5c35-984a-63418a1239a0)
CHAPTER FOUR (#ue932c854-c559-5c27-bbb4-53d3673a8d6f)
CHAPTER FIVE (#u31e01e14-9c8f-5dd2-98ec-37c2d0922a08)
CHAPTER SIX (#u421b5c89-528c-5974-b4e5-87280450fe19)
CHAPTER SEVEN (#u21b3e742-3dbd-5e2e-92bb-d35cf5399256)
CHAPTER EIGHT (#u9aef8aec-3d23-5f95-8bda-8e7ad10ef945)
CHAPTER NINE (#u43462f13-3530-54af-a810-b7e6fa600b8c)
CHAPTER TEN (#u35c4714e-192e-56ca-b2d4-ba7f18184037)
CHAPTER ELEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWELVE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)
The Baby That Changed Her Life (#litres_trial_promo)
Dedication (#litres_trial_promo)
PROLOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)
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CHAPTER EIGHT (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER NINE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TEN (#litres_trial_promo)
EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)
The Surgeon’s Baby Secret (#litres_trial_promo)
Back Cover Text (#litres_trial_promo)
Dedication (#litres_trial_promo)
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CHAPTER TWO (#litres_trial_promo)
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CHAPTER FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)
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CHAPTER ELEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWELVE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
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CHAPTER ONE (#ua494eb00-dfea-56d1-8a9f-d4f6192707bc)
‘SHE’S A BONNY LASS, our Bailey,’ Archie said.
Jared’s heart sank at the expression on the coach’s face. Clearly Archie had taken a fancy to the researcher. And Jared had a nasty feeling that this might be a case of the coach’s libido taking over from his common sense.
Allegedly, this ‘bonny lass’ researcher had a system that could reduce soft-tissue injuries among the players. So far, so good—but the figures being bandied about were crazy. In Jared’s experience, when something sounded too good to be true, it usually was. And he could really do without some pretty, flaky girl distracting the players and getting in the way when he needed to treat them. Especially when he’d only just started his new job as the doctor to the youth team of a premiership division football club.
He’d been here before, when a manager’s or player’s head had been turned by a pretty girl, and the outcome was always messy. Worse still, it tended to have an impact on the rest of the team. With a bunch of teenage lads, this could get very messy indeed.
But he kept his thoughts to himself and gave the coach a polite smile. ‘That’s nice.’
Hopefully this Bailey woman would get bored quickly, or her system would be debunked, and they could go back to a more sensible way of preventing soft-tissue injuries—like sport-specific training, after he’d assessed each of the players and taken a proper medical history.
In the meantime, he’d have to grit his teeth and be as polite and as neutral as possible.
‘Bailey—oh, good, you’re here. Come and meet Jared Fraser, the new team doctor,’ Archie McLennan called over from the side of the football pitch as Bailey walked through the players’ tunnel.
Bailey smiled at the youth team’s coach, but she made sure that she stood just far enough away so that Archie couldn’t put his arm round her shoulders. She liked him very much as a colleague—he was at least prepared to listen to new ideas and he’d been more than fair with her on the research project so far—but she really wasn’t in the market for a relationship.
Particularly with someone who was recently divorced and with a lifestyle that really didn’t work for her; that was just setting things up to fail. And Bailey had failed quite enough in her relationships, thank you very much. She wanted life to be simple in the future—full of her family, her friends and her work, and that was enough for her. She didn’t need anything more.
‘Jared, this is Bailey Randall—the doctor whose research project I was telling you about,’ Archie said.
For a moment, Jared looked as if he’d seen a ghost. Then he seemed to pull himself together and gave her a brief nod of acknowledgement. ‘Dr Randall.’
But he didn’t smile at her. Did he not approve of women being involved with a football team? Was he not good at social skills? Or—given that his accent was quite distinctive—was he just living up to the stereotype of the slightly dour, strong-and-silent Scotsman?
