The Fling That Changed Everything

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…

But there’s also a darker side to paradise—secrets, 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 they’ve all come to call home!

Read Caroline and Keanu’s story in

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Read Anna and Luke’s story in

The Nurse Who Stole His Heartby Alison Roberts

Read Maddie and Josh’s story in

Saving Maddie’s Babyby Marion Lennox

Read Sarah and Harry’s story in

A Sheikh to Capture Her Heartby Meredith Webber

Read Lia and Sam’s story in

The Fling That Changed Everythingby Alison Roberts

Read Hettie and Max’s story in

A Child to Open Their Hearts by Marion Lennox

All available now!

Confession time…I love a bit of drama!

And what better place for it than our fabulous M’Langi islands?

I couldn’t wait to get back there again, and this time I got to unleash a tropical storm that’s a perfect backdrop to the powerful attraction that neither Lia nor Sam are looking for but find themselves unable to ignore.

Is it a simple story of two people unexpectedly finding their soulmates in a tropical paradise?

Of course not.

There’s a reason Lia’s come to Wildfire Island, and it has nothing to do with Sam. And Sam …? Well, he’s got some baggage, and he doesn’t realise how much it’s still affecting him.

It’s a bit of a wild ride. I loved writing it and I hope you enjoy it just as much.

With love,

Alison xxx

ALISON ROBERTS is a New Zealander, currently lucky enough to live near a beautiful beach in Auckland. She is also lucky enough to write for both the Mills & Boon Romance and Medical Romance lines. A primary school teacher in a former life, she is also a qualified paramedic. She loves to travel and dance, drink champagne and spend time with her daughter and her friends.

The Fling

That Changed Everything

Alison Roberts

www.millsandboon.co.uk

‘…the author gave me wonderful enjoyable moments of conflict and truth-revealing moments of joy and sorrow…I highly recommend this book for all lovers of romance with medical drama as a backdrop and second-chance love.’

—Contemporary Romance ReviewsonNYC Angels: An Explosive Reunion

Contents

Cover

Introduction

Dear Reader

About the Author

Title Page

Praise

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Copyright

CHAPTER ONE

THE SOUND OF the telephone ringing could barely be heard over the cacophony as the Roselli family gathered in their kitchen for dinner.

It wasn’t a big room. If the whole family had been here, they would have had to use the huge, rustic table out in the courtyard, beneath the vine-smothered pergola, but it was raining today—the kind of tropical downpour that was familiar to people living in Northern Australia—and the vines weren’t enough protection from the wet.

So, here they were, piling into the kitchen that was a long room, where Adriana Roselli presided over the benchtop and oven at one end and the scrubbed pine table that could fit ten people—if they squeezed up—filled the other end of the room. Fitting a wheelchair in made it a little more complicated, of course, and that was why the noise level was so high right now.

‘Ow... You ran over my foot, Fiona. Watch where you’re going.’

‘If you didn’t have your stupid ears full of your horrible music, you would have seen us coming. Move yourself, Guy.’

‘Not until you say you’re sorry. You’ve probably broken my toe.’

‘You’re the one who should apologise. Look, you’ve made Angel cry...’

‘Look out, all of you. If I drop this lasagne, you’ll all be sorry. Mamma mia...’ Adriana held a vast steaming tray over her head as her youngest son elbowed his way past her. ‘Why don’t my children ever grow up and act their ages? What have I ever done to deserve this? Lia, why isn’t the bread on the table?’

‘I’m coming... Oh, is that the phone?’

It took a moment for the effect of her words to sink in. Adriana almost dropped the lasagne onto the centre of her table and then covered her mouth with her hands, her gaze—like that of everyone else in the room, apart from Angel—swivelling towards Nico.

Was this the call they’d all been waiting for today?

‘I’ll get it.’

‘No, I will.’

‘It’ll be for Nico. Let him get it.’

But Nico was looking like a possum caught in headlights—too scared to move.

‘I’ll get it.’ Lia shoved the long basket piled with fragrant homemade bread at her brother Guy, but he had his eyes shut, his head nodding to whatever mesmerising beat he was still listening to, and she was too late, anyway. Her younger sister, Elena, had reached the phone first.