Rescued By The Single Dad Doc
"So you’re rescuing me? Like you’ve rescued three kids and a dog already?" Life has taught Dr. Rachel Tilding the hard way that she can’t afford to let her guard down – ever! Except her new boss, Dr. Tom Lavery, hasn’t read the memo. Known for sheltering all manner of waifs and strays, Rachel feels uncomfortably like Tom’s latest project! She should be pushing back but somehow Tom and his boys are starting to heal her wounded heart…
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“So you’re rescuing me?
Like you’ve rescued three kids and a dog already?”
Life has taught Dr. Rachel Tilding the hard way that she can’t afford to let her guard down—ever! Except her new boss, Dr. Tom Lavery, hasn’t read the memo. He’s known for sheltering all manner of waifs and strays, and Rachel feels uncomfortably like Tom’s latest project! She should be pushing back, but somehow Tom and his boys are starting to heal her wounded heart…
MARION LENNOX has written over one hundred romance novels, and is published in over one hundred countries and thirty languages. Her international awards include the prestigious RITA® Award (twice!) and the RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award for ‘a body of work which makes us laugh and teaches us about love’. Marion adores her family, her kayak, her dog, and lying on the beach with a book someone else has written. Heaven!
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ISBN: 978-0-008-90203-2
RESCUED BY THE SINGLE DAD DOC
© 2019 Marion Lennox
Published in Great Britain 2019
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With thanks to Mary Michele,
whose kindness made this book so much easier.
This book is for Denise, who, with her wobbly mate
Molly, helps make this place home.
Contents
Note to Readers
DR RACHEL TILDING enjoyed treating kids. If they couldn’t speak it was often up to Rachel to figure out what was wrong, but in general kids’ needs were uncomplicated. They didn’t intrude on her personal space. If all Rachel’s patients were kids—without parents—she might well be looking at a different career path.
As it was, her aim was to be a radiologist, interpreting results from state-of-the-art equipment and having little to do with patients at all. But the terms of her scholarship specified she had to spend her first two years after internship as a family doctor in Shallow Bay. She’d geared herself to face it.
What she hadn’t prepared herself for was living next to a house full of kids. Their noise was bad enough, plus the yips of excitement from their dog. Then, a mere two hours after she’d moved in, a ball smashed through her window, almost making her drop the carton of glassware she’d been unpacking. The ball landed in a spray of shattered glass in the kitchen sink.
Count to ten, she told herself. These are kids. Don’t yell.
She’d been telling herself that since she’d arrived. These were her new neighbours. It wasn’t their fault that she valued privacy above all else. Someone would call them in for dinner soon. They’d go to bed and she’d have the silence she craved.
