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Heart Like Mine
Echo Lake #2
Maggie McGinnis
Releasing April 5th, 2016
St. Martin's Press
Delaney Blair loves her job at Echo Lake's Mercy Hospital, where she's developed a reputation for being smart, fair, and driven. When she's assigned to cut funding, she has to temporarily relocate her office, put on borrowed scrubs, and go toe-to-toe with Dr. Joshua Mackenzie, the interim head of the pediatrics department. His killer smile and rock-star body are distractions Delaney could do without, but she's determined to stay focused while she brings his budget into line.
It's not working.
Beloved by his colleagues and patients alike, Josh is too busy caring for sick kids to talk numbers with the sexy, stiletto-clad Delaney. Every time they talk business, tensions run high…but so does a powerful attraction neither of them can ignore. When an emergency brings Mercy to its knees, Delaney and Josh must work together to save lives. But can they also find a way into each other's hearts?
It's not working.
Beloved by his colleagues and patients alike, Josh is too busy caring for sick kids to talk numbers with the sexy, stiletto-clad Delaney. Every time they talk business, tensions run high…but so does a powerful attraction neither of them can ignore. When an emergency brings Mercy to its knees, Delaney and Josh must work together to save lives. But can they also find a way into each other's hearts?
“You’re just going to have to go down there,
Delaney.” Megan propped a hip on Delaney’s desk two days later. Delaney envied
her assistant’s long skirt, gypsy earrings, and long, loose cotton blouse. In
college, she’d have topped it off with a head scarf and combat boots, but for
the workplace, she’d gone with her standard-issue leather sandals.
Delaney looked down at her own outfit and wondered
when she’d turned into a toned-down version of her country club mother. Her
neatly ironed blouse was set off by a perfectly matched skirt and jacket, and
as she fingered the pearls at her throat, she sighed. Then she let her eyes
coast down her calves, down to the Jimmy Choos she’d bought just last month. It
was her splurge, her bow to girliness and inappropriate spending, and damn, she
loved these shoes.
She really did need to ditch the pearls, though.
“I can’t just go down there, Megan.” Delaney felt a
tingle at the base of her neck, just thinking of walking onto the pediatric
floor. No, she definitely couldn’t go down there.
“Well, he’s obviously not coming to you.”
“How can he just ignore my messages like this? It’s
downright rude.”
“Or he’s downright busy. Have you seen the bed
count on pediatrics this week?”
“No.” Delaney cringed. It wasn’t the kind of thing
she kept track of on a daily basis.
“There is always the possibility that he’s not
intentionally ignoring you. Just saying.”
“I’ll check.” Delaney clicked into the system that
listed current inpatient numbers. When she got to the pediatric floor, her eyes
widened. “Holy—”
“Exactly.” Megan raised her eyebrows.
“We don’t even have
that many pediatric beds.”
“I know. They had to move a couple of the teenagers
up to adult floors to make space.”
Delaney clicked back through the past month, and
the patient counts went up and down a little bit, but not much.
“I’m just saying—this could be why Dr. Mackenzie
hasn’t called back.” Megan leaned close to Delaney and plucked open her top
button. “Which means you, third floor, this afternoon. He’s clearly isn’t
coming to you.”
Delaney felt the chills creep down her spine. She
had never actually been on Mercy’s pediatric floor—had never been on any pediatric floor—not since Parker had
died.
“Delaney? You okay?” Megan’s brow creased as she
studied Delaney’s face. “You are six shades of white, girl. Does talking to
non-executive-suite people make you this
scared?”
“No.” Delaney’s voice came out in a whisper.
“Oh.” Megan’s hand flew to her mouth. “Oh, God. I’m
sorry.” She squeezed her eyes shut. “I’m so sorry. I wasn’t thinking.”
Delaney nodded slowly. “It’s okay. It’s been—a long
time since he died. Not like you would think of it.”
“But I should have. I’m really sorry.” Megan tried
to look into her eyes, but Delaney’s felt all shifty. “Do you want me to go
with you?”
“No, Meg. I don’t want to go at all.”
“But—”
“I know. He’s not coming to me.” She took a deep
breath, blowing it out slowly. Maybe it wouldn’t be horrible. Maybe she
wouldn’t melt into a panic-puddle at the elevator doors. Maybe she wouldn’t see
Parker everywhere she looked.
Maybe pigs flew.
USA Today bestselling author Maggie McGinnis is a Golden Heart Finalist who lives in New England, vastly outnumbered by both children and cats. She writes sweet romances set in Montana and Vermont, and feels extremely fortunate that through her books, she gets to fall in love every single day. She's a sucker for romantic comedies, popcorn, and the perfect green pen, and if she wasn't an author, she'd totally be rocking a Nashville club in her pink cowgirl boots. It's probably good that she embraced the author thing, because her singing skills are better suited to the shower, and really? Pink cowgirl boots?
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