Luci Dawsonâs guide to getting over your ex:
1. Leave your troubles behind and escape to Sydney for a temporary house swap.
2. When a gorgeous stranger walks into your bedroom, smileâyouâve hit the jackpot!
3. Indulge in a hot fling with said stranger!
But little does nurse Luci know that her fling is about to become so much more. Because Dr. Seb Hollingsworth has ways of making her feel alive again. With Christmas just around the corner, suddenly Luci knows exactly what she wants under her tree!
Dear Reader,
I wrote my first ten books with my sister, and in my experience the first thing everyone asked was, âHow do you do it?â The truth was Iâd never written a book any other wayâthat was all I knew. I have now written fifteen stories solo, but when I was asked if I would be interested in writing a duo with Amy Andrews of course I said yes. We have known each other for a long time, and Amy has also written books with her sister, so weâre both used to plotting with other writersâand sometimes negotiating! âº
Working out our characters and our stories and how we were going to fit them together was great fun. Our brief was simply to write two stories in which our characters swapped houses; the rest was up to us. We took one character from the country and sent her to the city, and moved one hero in the other direction. One country girl, one city boyâboth out of their depth.
Seb and Callum Hollingsworth are gorgeous, smart, sexy brothers, and Luci and Flick are best friends. Even though it might have made sense to make the girls sisters, as that is what we both know so well, it was more interesting to make the boys siblingsâtwo brooding loners in need of a bit of loving.
I really hope you enjoy both stories.
Happy reading,
Emily
EMILY FORBES is an award-winning author of Medical Romances for Mills & Boon. She has written over 25 books and has twice been a finalist in the Australian Romantic Book of the Year Award, which she won in 2013 for her novel Sydney Harbour Hospital: Bellaâs Wishlist. You can get in touch with Emily at [email protected] or visit her website at emily-forbesauthor.com.
Books by Emily Forbes
Mills & Boon Medical Romance
The Hollywood Hills Clinic
Falling for the Single Dad
Tempted & Tamed!
A Doctor by Day... Tamed by the Renegade
Sydney Harbour Hospital: Bellaâs Wishlist
Breaking the Playboyâs Rules Daring to Date Dr Celebrity The Honourable Army Doc A Kiss to Melt Her Heart His Little Christmas Miracle A Love Against All Odds
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For anyone who has ever fallen in love when they didnât intend toâitâs never the wrong time!
Praise for Emily Forbes
âThe Honourable Army Doc was a wonderful, emotional and passionate read that I recommend to all readers.â
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CHAPTER ONE
âOMG, FLICK, I wish youâd been able to see this place.â
Luci had spoken to her best friend several times already today but she couldnât resist calling her again to update her on her good fortune.
âItâs nice, then?â She could hear the smile in Flickâs voice.
âNice! Itâs amazing.â Luci wandered around the apartment while she chatted. âItâs right on the harbour. The beach is just across the road. Iâm looking at the sea as we speak.â She could hear the waves washing onto the shore and smell the salt in the air. âI donât know how Callum is going to manage in my little house.â
It was a bit odd to be walking around a strangerâs apartment. Luci had spent her whole life surrounded by people she knew so to travel halfway across the country to swap houses with a stranger was odd on so many levels. It had all happened so quickly she hadnât had time to consider how it would feel. Callum Hollingsworthâs apartment on the shores of Sydney Harbour was modern and masculine. While her house wasnât particularly feminine it was old and decorated in what she guessed people would call country style. No surprises there, it was definitely a country house. It was clear that her house-swap partnerâs taste in decorating was quite different from hers. She felt self-conscious, wondering what he would think of her place, before she realised it didnât matter. She didnât plan on meeting the guy.
She heard the whistle of the Indian Pacific through the phone. The two friends had spent the past few days chilling on Bondi Beach, a girlsâ getaway that Flick had suggested before Luci settled into her house swap and study course in Sydney, and Flick returned to South Australia on the iconic trans-continental train.
âAre you on the train?â Luci asked.
âNot yet,â Flick replied. âIâm just grabbing a coffee and waiting to board.â
âMake sure you call me when you get home,â she told her.