From playing it safe...
To falling for her rebel boss!
In this Bondi Bay Heroes story, ER nurse Samantha Braithwaite has learnt never to put limits on herself. But working with Dr. Blake Cooper is her biggest challenge yet. He thinks sheâs shy, but that makes her more determined to prove she can make the Specialist Disaster Response team. And as days spill into nights, the chemistry theyâve tried to hide is about to explode!
ALISON ROBERTS is a New Zealander, currently lucky enough to be living in the south of France. She is also lucky enough to write for the Mills & Boon Medical Romance line. A primary school teacher in a former life, she is now a qualified paramedic. She loves to travel and dance, drink champagne, and spend time with her daughter and her friends.
Also by Alison Roberts
Sleigh Ride with the Single Dad
The Doctorâs Wife for Keeps Twin Surprise for the Italian Doc
Bondi Bay Heroes collection
The Shy Nurseâs Rebel Doc
Finding His Wife, Finding a Son by Marion Lennox
And look out for the next two books
Healed by Her Army Doc by Meredith Webber Rescued by Her Mr Right
Available September 2018
Discover more at millsandboon.co.uk.
ISBN: 978-1-474-07523-7
THE SHY NURSEâS REBEL DOC
© 2018 Alison Roberts
Published in Great Britain 2018
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CHAPTER ONE
IT BLINDSIDED HIM.
Blake Cooper had just swung himself off his motorbike in his allotted ED staff parking space at Sydneyâs Bondi Bayside Hospital and flipped up his visor. He should have been easing off his helmet, now, and reaching for the worn leather satchel in the side pannier but he wasnât moving at all. His fingers felt like they were stuck to the sides of his helmet and his eyes were just as stuck.
On that car...
A gleaming, vintage MG roadster.
Red.
Of course it was red. It was a giant Dinky toy, come to life.
His toy.
And, there he was. Five years old again. Finding that shoebox full of treasure at the bottom of the carton of kitchen junk his mother had bought for virtually nothing from the charity shop clearance sale. Thereâd been more than a dozen of the tiny pre-loved metal vehicles but his absolute favourite had been that little red MG roadster, even if it did have chipped paint and a missing wheel. He could almost feel the sharp edges of it in his hand right now, as his fingers curled into a fistâthe way they had back then, as they clutched the toy hidden in his pocket, whenever something important was happening. Like when he had to change schools. Or when the big boys on the block were following him home...
Blake dismissed the memory of that fear with a soft snort. His upbringing had had its advantages because he wasnât afraid of anything now.
And this real-life toy wasnât anything like his miniature version. Someone must have spent a fortune restoring it. Heâd bet it had a completely new motor now, and that soft, red leather upholstery certainly wasnât original. A new staff member, perhaps? Or a visiting consultant who had the means to indulge a pricey hobby? The idea of spending huge amounts of money purely for pleasure was distasteful but he wasnât going to allow that to tarnish a memory that had been a poignant reminder of something very special. It became so much more muted when you were an adult, that bolt of sheer happiness that life could deliver something so amazing. When you could find real treasure so unexpectedly.