REBELS WITH A CAUSE
A fabulous new linked duet by Scarlet Wilson
Doctors on a mission to eradicate infectious diseases ⦠Their work is life-changing and often heartbreaking. But for these rebel heroes and bravehearted heroines their work with the DPA (Disease Prevention Agency) isnât just about making a difference and saving livesâbecause they are all running from something, and facing a crisis together puts their own hearts on the line!
THE MAVERICK DOCTOR AND MISS PRIM
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ABOUT THAT NIGHT â¦
Dear Reader
When I was asked by my editor if I would be interested in writing a duet I was delighted and jumped at the chance. The Center for Disease Control in the US has always fascinated me. I work in public health, and love all the work around infectious diseases and immunisation campaigns. The CDC always features heavily in any plague/outbreak/epidemic films that are made, and I was excited at the prospect of having a story along those lines and set about creating my own fictional organisation, the Disease Prevention Agency, for my Rebels with a Cause duet.
But all stories need to have fabulous characters, and I instantly fell in love with my hero in THE MAVERICK DOCTOR AND MISS PRIMâMatt Sawyer, wounded bad boy and very much like his namesake, Sawyer in Lost. Heâs the kind of guy you know deep-down has real good in him. Itâs just going to take a special woman to unearth it.
My sassy heroine Callie is a girl out of her depth. She takes the initial call at the DPA and assembles the team, but her mentor is taken unwell on a plane and sheâs left in charge of a situation that is clearly bigger than any sheâs coped with before.
Her only option is to turn to Sawyer for help. After all, he worked in the DPA previously and has the expertise she needs. So why doesnât he want to help? It makes quarantine very interesting â¦
Both my characters in this story are grieving. And both deal with their grief in their own way. Needless to say I let them get their happy-ever-after. It just takes a while to get there!
Please feel free to contact me via my website: www.scarlet-wilson.com. I love to hear from readers!
Scarlet
SCARLET WILSON wrote her first story aged eight and has never stopped. Her family have fond memories of Shirley and the Magic Purse, with its army of mice, all with names beginning with the letter âMâ. An avid reader, Scarlet started with every Enid Blyton book, moved on to the Chalet School series, and many years later found Mills & Boon>®.
She trained and worked as a nurse and health visitor, and currently works in public health. For her, finding Mills & Boon® Medical Romances⢠was a match made in heaven. She is delighted to find herself among the authors she has read for many years.
Scarlet lives on the West Coast of Scotland with her fiancé and their two sons.
Recent titles by the same author:
AN INESCAPABLE TEMPTATION
HER CHRISTMAS EVE DIAMOND
A BOND BETWEEN STRANGERS*
WEST WING TO MATERNITY WING!
THE BOY WHO MADE THEM LOVE AGAIN
IT STARTED WITH A PREGNANCY
*The Most Precious Bundle of All
These books are also available in eBook format from www.millsandboon.co.uk
Dedication
This book is dedicated to my two fabulous and entrepreneurial brothers-in-law, who have put up with me for more years than I care to remember. For Sandy Dickson and Robert Glencross, thank you for everything that youâve done for me and my family and for taking such good care of my sisters!
Chicago
âOKAY, BEAUTIFUL, WHAT you got for me?â Sawyer leaned across the reception desk as the clerk glared at him.
Miriam cracked her chewing gum. âYouâve been here too longâyouâre getting smart-mouthed.â
âIâve always been smart-mouthed.â
âAnd get a haircut.â
He pushed his shaggy light brown hair from his eyes then tossed his head. âThe long-haired look is in. BesidesâIâm worth it.â
The clerk rolled her eyes and picked up three charts. âYou can have two sick kids with chicken pox in room six or a forty-three-year-old female with D&V behind curtain two.â They lifted their heads in unison as the noise of someone retching behind curtain two filled the air.
He shuddered. âGive me the kids.â He grabbed the charts and walked down the corridor. His eyes skimmed the information on the charts. Ben and Jack Keating, aged six and seven, just returned from abroad with chicken pox.
He pushed open the door. Unusually, the lights were dimmed in the room. The two kidsâbrothersâlay on the beds with a parent at each bedside. Alison, one of the nurses, was taking a temperature. She walked over to him, her pregnancy bump just starting to emerge from her scrub trousers. âSickest kids Iâve seen in a while,â she murmured.
He gave her a smile, his natural instinct kicking in. âYou safe to be in here?â
She sighed. âAfter three kids of my own itâs safe to say Iâm immune.â
Sawyer crossed the room quickly, leaving the charts at the bottom of the beds. Alison was right. These kids didnât look good. Chicken pox could be a lot more serious than a few itchy spots.