Saving Maddie's Baby
A precious rescue…Dr Maddie Haddon doesn’t think twice before running into Wildfire Island’s crumbling goldmine to save a life. But another rockfall leaves Maddie trapped inside—and this time it’s her turn to be saved…Emergency medic Josh Campbell is used to working under pressure, but when he discovers that his latest call is to rescue his ex-wife, who is on the brink of labour, the stakes are higher than ever! Can Josh save Maddie and her baby…and heal their broken marriage too?Wildfire Island DocsWelcome to Paradise!
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âMarion Lennoxâs Rescue at Cradle Lake is simply magical, eliciting laughter and tears in equal measure. A keeper.â
âRT Book Reviews
âA very rewarding read. The characters are believable, the setting is real, and the writing is terrific.â
âDear Author on Christmas with Her Boss
Welcome to Paradise!
Meet the small but dedicated team of medics who service the remote Pacific Wildfire Island.
In this idyllic setting relationships are rekindled, passions are stirred, and bonds that will last a lifetime are forged in the tropical heat â¦
But thereâs also a darker side to paradiseâsecrets, lies and greed amidst the Lockhart family threaten the community, and the team find themselves fighting to save more than the lives of their patients. They must band together to fight for the future of the island theyâve all come to call home!
Read Caroline and Keanuâs story in
The Man She Could Never Forget by Meredith Webber
Read Anna and Lukeâs story in
The Nurse Who Stole His Heart by Alison Roberts
Read Maddie and Joshâs story in
Saving Maddieâs Baby by Marion Lennox
Read Sarah and Harryâs story in
A Sheikh to Capture Her Heart by Meredith Webber
All available now!
Wildfire Island is my dream destinationâa tropical paradise where all things are possible. Our island is breathtakingly beautiful, its weather wonderful one day, perfect the next. I close my eyes and imagine myself soaking up the sun as I float by the waterfall feeding the freshwater lagoon, preferably holding a drink with a wee umbrella.
Of course all tropical paradises have their bad days, and thatâs what happens in Saving MaddieâsBaby. Maddie starts off with a very bad day. But this is Wildfire Island, where romance is always in the airâeven if my hero Josh has to put himself in mortal danger to find it.
Saving MaddieâsBaby is Book Three of the six-book Wildfire Island Docs series, written with my fabulous fellow authors Alison Roberts and Meredith Webber. Weâve had a lot of fun indulging ourselves in our Wildfire Island fantasy. I hope you have the same fun reading them.
Marion
MARION LENNOX has written over a hundred romance novels and is published in over a hundred countries and thirty languages. Her international awards include the prestigious RITA® Award (twice) and the RT Book Reviews Career Achievement award for âa body of work which makes us laugh and teaches us about loveâ. Marion adores her family, her kayak, her dog, and lying on the beach with a book someone else has written. Heaven.
To Meredith and Alison,
who make my writerâs life fun.
Table of Contents
HEROES AND HEROINES donât choose to be brave, Maddie decided. Mostly they have bravery thrust upon them. In her particular case, a heroine was created when vast chunks of rock trapped one doctor in an underground mine, a mine she should never have been near in the first place.
This heroine wasnât brave. This heroine was stupid.
Everyone knew the mine was dangerous. Ian Lockhart, the owner, had left Wildfire Island weeks ago, with salaries unpaid and debts outstanding. The mine had been closed for non-compliance with safety standards not long after Ianâs disappearance.
So whose bright idea had it been to see if they could tap one of the seams close to the surface?
There were reasons this seam hadnât been tapped before. The rock was brittle. Without salaries, though, and desperate for income, the islanders had cut through the fence and quietly burrowed. No one was supposed to know.
But now ⦠The call had come through an hour ago. A splintered piece of shoring timber and a minor rockfall had left one of the islanders with a fractured leg.
If it hadnât been badly fractured they might have brought Kalifa down to the hospital, keeping their mining secret. Instead, his mates had had the sense to ring Maddie, asking her to come across the mountains to the overgrown mine site.
MaddieâMadeline Haddonâwas heavily pregnant but she was the only doctor available. The miners had told her there were shards of bone puncturing Kalifaâs skin, so transporting him by road before assessment meant the risk of cutting off the blood supply.
Sheâd had to go.
Once at the mine site, it had taken work to stabilise him. Kalifa needed specialist surgery if he wasnât to be left with a permanent limp, and she was worried about the strain on his heart. Sheâd just rung Keanu, the other island doctor, who was currently on his way back from a clinic on an outer island. Sheâd been asking him to organise Kalifaâs evacuation to Cairns when there was an ominous rumble from underground.
The mouth of the mine had belched a vast cloud of dirt and dust.
