His Shock Valentine's Proposal

‘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!’

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‘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

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!

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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.

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.

www.millsandboon.co.uk

Cover

Praise for Amy Ruttan

Excerpt

Dear Reader

About the Author

Title Page

Dedication

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

EPILOGUE

Copyright

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.

“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.