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His Shock Valentine's Proposal
Amy Ruttan
From rivals…to romance?New doctor in town, Esme Peterson, is direct competition for GP Carson Ralston and he isn’t pleased. Especially as her beauty and disarming manner threaten the barriers he’s carefully built around his heart…Guarded Esme tries to keep Carson at a distance. But as the battle for power between them heats up, rivalry soon turns to insatiable passion. And a shock Valentine’s proposal changes everything!Sealed by a Valentine’s KissThese untamed docs are almost too hot to handle!
Praise for Amy Ruttan (#ulink_cbebc8d3-039a-5ed1-a02d-d5c783aff190)
‘I highly recommend this for all fans of romance reads with amazing, absolutely breathtaking scenes, to-die-for dialogue, and everything else that is needed to make this a beyond awesome and WOW read!’
—Goodreads on Melting the Ice Queen’s Heart
‘A sensational romance, filled with astounding medical drama. Author Amy Ruttan makes us visualise the story with her flawless storytelling. The emotional and sensory details are exquisitely done and the sensuality in the love scene just sizzles. Highly recommended for all lovers of medical romance.’
—Contemporary Romance Reviews on Safe in His Hands
Sealed by a Valentine’s Kiss
These untamed docs are almost too hot to handle!
Welcome to Crater Lake, Montana, where doctors Carson and Luke Ralston were born and raised. Big Sky Country gives these gorgeous brothers the space to leave their difficult pasts firmly behind them … until two new additions to the landscape—feisty surgeon Esme Petersen and east-coast ace Dr Sarah Ledet—upset their careful balance!
Find out what happens in
Carson and Esme’s story
His Shock Valentine’sProposal
and
Luke and Sarah’s story
Craving Her Ex-Army Doc
Don’t miss the Sealed by a Valentine’s Kiss duet from Mills & Boon Medical Romance author Amy Ruttan
Available from February 2016!
Dear Reader (#ulink_1a935960-d257-5c90-bdbb-9d4e638b325b),
Thank you for picking up a copy of His Shock Valentine’s Proposal.
Montana is a state I never really had on my bucket list. And then one summer, on a drive out to Alberta to visit family, I had the privilege to travel through it. From Broadus to Billings, and up through Great Falls, I fell absolutely head over heels in love. Mountains, sweeping plains and badlands … They say Montana is ‘Big Sky Country’ and they’re right.
After that visit I knew I had to set a story in Montana. Especially in the mountains, nestled against the border of Alberta—a province that was also never on my radar until I had to travel there for my sister-in-law’s wedding. I fell in love with Alberta too on that trip.
What struck me about travelling through Montana was its vastness. All that land and barely a person in sight. It’s a place to get lost and to find yourself. It’s a perfect place for my heroine Esme to hide.
Montana is also a place I wouldn’t mind raising my kids. Fresh air, mountains, plains—it’s a beautiful land. It’s also where my hero grew up. Carson doesn’t want to leave Crater Lake, or the family practice he’s inherited. And he certainly doesn’t want a relationship after his heart is broken. But when he’s faced with competition in the form of a new doctor in town maybe love will soften his heart after all?
I love hearing from readers, so please drop by my website, amyruttan.com, or give me a shout on Twitter @ruttanamy (http://Twitter.com).
With warmest wishes,
Amy Ruttan
Born and raised on the outskirts of Toronto, Ontario, AMY RUTTAN fled the big city to settle down with the country boy of her dreams. Life got in the way, and after the birth of her second child she decided to pursue her dream of becoming a romance author. When she’s not furiously typing away at her computer, she’s mom to three wonderful children.
His Shock
Valentine’s
Proposal
Amy Ruttan
www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)
Table of Contents
Cover (#u21e412d6-185f-52c4-b067-da19f27bbfc9)
Praise for Amy Ruttan (#uf7c2496e-6695-5be1-92de-9fcedfd5cd8d)
Excerpt (#ud89ec3c5-d548-5a91-8a32-f0b9748223c9)
Dear Reader (#u0c75a7e0-64c8-55ef-93b5-92383e6068dd)
About the Author (#u82cbf4cd-507c-50c1-a137-b0e130e6c694)
Title Page (#u709636b2-79e1-5cf2-a5e4-f7478d22de9d)
Dedication (#u728c6181-65ff-58b7-8a22-61a6e09e1181)
CHAPTER ONE (#u4efa6256-3eb8-5e8c-a609-37e7d844882b)
CHAPTER TWO (#uc3e380d4-7e84-5c9b-9315-0f8f05f0fbda)
CHAPTER THREE (#ufd0852a3-304f-54ac-895d-b82a2688f41d)
CHAPTER FOUR (#ucee781af-9ae2-5c31-b221-b8bd5dd1bc7d)
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)
EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
This book is dedicated to Montana. Your beauty, even
four years after I visited you, still haunts me and makes
me long to spend endless summers wandering through
your mountains, your plains and your badlands.
This book is also for James, who spent his third birthday
in Montana on our cross-country trek and
loved every second of it. Love you, buddy.
CHAPTER ONE (#ulink_8a47a516-134f-5838-8b45-397ddc54c9d5)
“WHAT DOES SHE think she’s doing?” Carson grumbled to himself.
“Looks like she’s planting flowers in a pot,” Nurse Adams remarked.
Carson turned and glanced at his father’s nurse, who had worked in the practice longer than Carson had. Actually, she was technically his nurse now. He hadn’t realized she’d snuck up behind him. Like a ninja.
“I didn’t ask for your opinion.”
She looked down her nose at him in that way she always did when he was little and causing mischief in his father’s office. A look that still sent shivers of dread down his spine and he realized he’d taken it a step too far.
“If you didn’t want my opinion, Dr. Ralston, you shouldn’t be talking out loud in my waiting room.”
“Sorry, Louise.” He rubbed the back of his neck. “Just hate seeing all these changes going on in Crater Lake.”
Her expression softened. “There’s a building boom. It was inevitable that another doctor would come into town and set up shop.”
Carson frowned and jammed his hands in his trouser pockets as he watched the new, attractive doctor in town planting flowers outside the office across the street. Crater Lake was changing and he wasn’t sure he liked it too much.
His father had been the lone physician in Crater Lake for over forty years, long before Carson was born. It was a practice he’d taken over from his grandfather; now Carson had taken over the practice since his parents retired and moved south to warmer climates.
There had always been a Ralston as the town’s sole practitioner since Crater Lake was founded in 1908. Something his father liked to remind him of constantly.
The only other time there had been a notion of two town doctors was when Danielle had lived with him for a time after medical school, but that had been different. They were supposed to work together, get married and raise a family. It hadn’t lasted. She hadn’t liked the slow existence or the winters of living in northwest Montana.
Luke is a doctor.
Carson snorted as he thought of his older brother, who was indeed a licensed practitioner, but Luke didn’t like the confines of an office and preferred to be out in the woods tracking bears or whatever he did up on the mountains. Luke didn’t have the same passion of upholding the family tradition of having a Ralston as the family practitioner in Crater Lake. That job fell on Carson.
The new doctor in town, Dr. Petersen, stood up, arching her back, stretching. Her blond hair shining in the early summer sunlight. He didn’t know much about the newest resident of Crater Lake. Not many people did. She’d moved in and kept to herself. Her practice hadn’t even opened yet and though Carson shouldn’t care he couldn’t help but wonder about her, who she was.
The door jingled and he glanced at the door as his brother came striding in, in his heavy denim and leather, a hank of rope slung around his shoulder.
Louise huffed under her breath as his brother dragged in dirt with his arrival.
“Slow day?” Luke asked as he set the rope down on a chair.
“Yeah. I have the Johnstone twins coming in about an hour for vaccinations.”
Luke winced. “I’ll be gone before then.”
Louise stood up, hands on her ample hips. “Would you pick up that filthy rope? My waiting room was clean until you showed up! Honestly, if your parents were still here …”
Luke chuckled. “You make it sound like they’re dead, Louise. They’re in Naples, Florida. They live on the edge of a golf course.”
Carson chuckled. “Come on, let’s retreat to my office. Sorry, Louise.”
Carson glanced back one more time, but Dr. Petersen had gone back inside. His brother followed his gaze out the window and then looked at him, confused.
When they were in his office, Luke sat down on one of the chairs. “What was so interesting outside?”
“There’s a new doctor in town,” Carson said offhandedly.
Luke grinned, leaning back in his chair. “Oh, I see.”
“What do you see?”
“I’ve seen her. I’m not blind.”
Carson snorted. “That’s not it at all.”
Luke cocked an eyebrow. “Then what is it?”
“It’s a new doctor in town. It’s threatening our family practice.”
Luke shrugged. “It’s your practice, not mine.”
So like his brother. Not caring much about the family practice. Not caring about generations of Ralstons who’d sweated to build this practice and this town up. Well, at least he cared.
Do you?
