By: Fiona Lowe
Releasing July 7th, 2015
Berkeley Sensation
Summer in Montana brings heat with a chance of
romance in the new Medicine River Romance from the award-winning author of
Montana Actually
Sexy and charming
Australian doctor Will Bartlett will do anything to help out a friend, even if
it means moving to Bear Paw for the summer. Some small-town hospitality, and
the uncomplicated friendship of his co-worker, Millie, is just the ticket to
shake off the restlessness that’s been gripping him lately.
Millie
Switkowski, RN and medical student, is home for her clinical rotation, and
she’s determined to make this summer so much better than last. She’s got a year
of medical school under her belt, her diabetes is under control and she’s
kicked her crazy crush for Will Bartlett, who only ever treated her as “one of
the guys.”
But when Will
turns out to be Millie’s supervising physician, without warning the summer gets
a whole lot hotter than either of them anticipated. With both of them holding
onto thorny secrets, can they walk away with their hearts intact?
He turned his head quickly and the ground tilted again. He
swayed, and as he steadied, he spied Josh’s nurse practitioner, Millie, and his fellow groom’s person. What was
her surname? Doesn’t matter. She was sitting alone at a table with an
empty chair opposite her, and she had her head down looking at something in her
hand. He assumed it was her phone. He loved social media as much as the next
person, but it bothered him how many people spent their time at social
functions live tweeting them rather than talking to the people present. It
probably answered the question as to why she was sitting alone. Still, she was
his save from the attentions of the hammered and giggly nurses. “Mind if I join
you?”
Her head shot up so fast that her kamikaze curls bounced
across her eyes, which, although mostly green, had an unusual ring of coppery
brown around each iris. She quickly slid the device she was holding into her
pocket, and he caught a flash of pink in the glow from the cluster of tea
lights on the center of the table. Funny. He’d never have picked Millie for a
pink girl. Come to think of it, he’d never thought about her in terms of
femininity at all. Millie was just . . . Millie. Unprepossessing.
Ordinary, even.
A flash
of a memory from last year flared. Not totally ordinary. She’s got a dimple-cute smile.
Only, she wasn’t smiling now. In fact she looked slightly
taken aback. “Really? You want to sit?”
The nurses were bearing down on him fast. “Really.”
“Okay, I guess.”
It wasn’t the most welcoming invitation he’d ever
received, but he took it anyway. As his bum hit the
chair, he heard a loud and collective sigh behind him.
“Doctor Bartlett, you tease,” Cassidy Blund cooed.
“We thought you were coming to talk to us,” said another
nurse who Will thought might be called Marissa. Or it could be Larissa—he
really didn’t remember nor did he really care, but he’d never let her know that.
He pulled his mouth into a broad smile and turned his face
toward the buzzed group. “And I was coming straight over to you until Millie,
here, reminded me that we have official secret wedding business to attend to
before Katrina and Josh leave.”
Millie made a definite snorting sound.
He ignored her, choosing instead to press on with the
nurses and appease them. “Sorry, ladies. Rain check?”
“I guess.” Cassidy squeezed his shoulder. “But only ’cause
you’re cute.”
“So very cute.” A woman he’d never met before gave him a
dreamy smile.
“We’ll be on the dance floor,” ’Issa instructed firmly.
“Come find us.”
They smiled and giggled before wobbling their way back
toward the tent, and he turned back to face Millie.
Her previous wide-eyed surprise had morphed into a narrow
gaze. “Secret wedding business?”
“Incredibly secret.” He grinned at her, expecting his
smile to soften the critical look she was currently spearing through him. He
leaned in conspiratorially and dropped his voice to a low burr that had got him
places with women in the past. “So secret that if either of us speak of it,
weddings as we know it will never be the same again.” He tapped his nose with
his finger. “It’s just not worth the risk.”
Instead of laughing, she leaned back slightly,
reestablishing the previous space between them. If she’d wanted to smile at
what he’d just said, she was doing a great job of hiding it. “Just so you know,
Will,” she said matter-of-factly, “the Bear Paw nursing department is known to
hold a grudge.”
“No worries. I’ll bring cake and chocolates next time I’m
in town.”
She blinked and then shot him an irritated look. “I should
turn you in.”
He broadened his smile. “But you won’t. We’re
brothers-in-arms.”
Something flickered in her eyes. “How do you figure that?”
“Well, we’re Josh’s groomsmen, or in your case, groom’s
person.”
She lifted her chin. “Actually, I’m the best man.”
He laughed. “I don’t think so. I’m the best man.”
She shook her head so hard that her dark auburn curls
brushed her creamy cheeks. “I arranged the bachelor party.”
With a jolt of surprise, he realized she was pissed off at
him. “And I appreciate that,” he said, starting to regret his decision to avoid
the tipsy nurses.
Her spearing look sharpened. “Exactly what did you do
apart from arrive at the last moment and look better in a suit than me?”
Ouch. What had he done to make her so snarky? And why
the hell was she wearing a suit anyway?
This series keeps getting better! Will and Millie get off to a rocky start, partly due to her crush on him and partly because of an assumption he makes about her. The following weeks of them getting to know each other as friends and then lovers are filled with humor, medical emergencies, sad memories and a bit of heartache. Fortunately for all of us who like HEA's, Will redeems himself and goes after Millie. As a bonus, there is a second romance between the nerdy town librarian and the stern new sheriff's deputy. Ethan is one the sweetest guys ever and I wish his and Tara's story would have been longer. I love this small town series and look forward to the next one. I hope Ty, the heartbroken cowboy from the first book in the series get his HEA soon!
I received an ARC via NetGalley for the purpose of an honest review. I was not compensated for this review, all conclusions are my own.
Fiona Lowe is a RITA® and R*BY award-winning,
multi-published author with Harlequin , Carina Press and, Berkley USA. Whether
her books are set in outback Australia or the USA, they feature small towns
with big hearts, and warm, likeable characters that make you fall in love. When
she's not writing stories, she's a weekend wife, mother of two 'ginger' teenage
boys, guardian of 80 rose bushes, slave to a cat and often found collapsed on
the couch with wine.
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