The authors at #MFRWHooks are presenting some great excerpts. Fine them here http://mfrwbookhooks.blogspot.com Mine is from Pursuing Doctor West a light-hearted medical romance
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Michael West MD has a five year plan before he can consider making a commitment. He’s happy dating women who have no desire for a long-term affair. Encountering Zelda, the pest, the menace, the little girl next door who has impacted his life makes him want to run. She managed to ruin his senior prom and sent several of his dates running. Now she’s grown and the nurse manager of the surgical unit where he will see her every day. What’s a doctor to do but run?
Zelda has loved Michael for year. She knows of the odd accidents her presence has caused him. After an encounter in the condo swimming pool, the accidents become hers but she refuses to give up her quest. The problem is his dating system. He seems to be on an alphabetical quest. He’s just met G and she’s Z. Can she find a way to turn his thoughts to her or must she give up her pursuit?
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Janet Lane-Walters once again delivers an
humorous fun loving romance. Zelda met Michael West at the age of six when he
moved in next door. She decided then and there she was going to marry him when
she grows up. Fast forward a number of year and Michael has finished med school
and moved back to his home town, joining the hospital Zelda works for. To make
matters worse, Michael unknowingly moves right next door to Zelda. Even though
he claims to want to avoid the troublesome, bad luck Zelda seems to bring with
her, they keep finding themselves together in awarkard and funny situations.
Once Zelda decideds she's never going to land the guy of her dreams and makes
plans to move to another state, Michael comes to his senses and goes after her.
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This book is so funny and charming. It was an
absolute joy to read
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“Michael, slow down.” The senior
partner of the surgical practice waved.
Michael waited for Dr. Probst.
“Good morning, sir. I didn’t expect to see you here so early.”
The gray-haired man smiled. “Always
the first. Good to see you’ve the same habit. Three cases on the schedule.
First one’s at nine.”
“Will I assist?”
“Eager to get your hands in?”
Michael grinned. “Sure am, sir.”
Dr. Probst chuckled. “How well I
remember those days. Before we head to the OR, we’ll make rounds. I’ll show you
the surgical unit.”
“Sounds good.” Though he had
visited the hospital when he’d been recruited, he hadn’t been impressed with
the unit.
“We’ve a new nurse manager.
Young, efficient. Has performed miracles during her five months in charge.
She’s cracked down on the staff. You’ll like her.”
Michael studied the older man.
Was he being set up? Not going to happen.
Casual affairs were his speed. He thought about the nurse manager he’d met when
the guys in the practice had wined and dined him. She’d been old, steely-eyed,
with a thin-lipped smile, making him think young doctors were to be trained
like puppies. Young might mean any woman under sixty. If the new nurse manager
was attractive and would be interested in a fling in the company of a man with
a five year plan, he might give her a try.
They rode the elevator from the
basement to the second floor. When he saw the nurse at the counter with a phone
in her left hand and her right poised over a keyboard, he halted and fought the
urge to run.
“No.” He groaned. “Impossible.”
“Something wrong?” Dr. Probst
asked.
Michael cleared his throat. Don’t be an ass. “I never expected to
see…” Help! His inner voice shouted
the final word of his nightmare.
“Zelda, come and meet the new
addition to our group.”
Michael sucked in a breath. The
bane of his youthful existence left the computer and sauntered toward them.
His throat constricted. His gut
churned. “You work here?” Duh. Could
his foot fit any tighter in his mouth? Why else was she dressed in a white
uniform? And the lab coat spelled administration. He took a second look. The
uniform fit her slender body to perfection.
Dr. Probst beamed. “Guess you
know each other. Zelda is our miracle nurse manager.”
Figured she’d find a way to
plague him. He didn’t like the ideas swarming like gnats in his thoughts. He
batted them away. Sure, Zelda was attractive and probably efficient, but she
was a cyclone centered on destructing Michael West MD. Like visions seen by a
drowning man, incidents flooded him. She had swamped his high school romance
with Allie, and sent depth charges into his summer fling with Bette.
Every time Zelda entered his
space strange events occurred. He tripped over invisible cracks in the sidewalk,
dropped drinks and plates of food. In her presence, he was an accident primed
to happen.
His gaze focused on her. Boy had
she changed. Short curly brown hair, bright blue eyes, slender figure with
tantalizing curves. An urge to taste her kissable lips made him take a step
toward her.
Whoa. This is Zelda. Not a chance. He enjoyed living. His hands
fisted and he tore his attention from her to his partner’s briefing on the
recovering patients and the ones awaiting surgery.
Zelda added comments, reported changes
in conditions and mentioned existing or pending problems. Michael realized she
ignored him more effectively than he did her. Still, he knew plans for
destructing his life stirred like a rising volcano in her head. They always had.
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10 comments:
Love your medical books with romance.
JQ Rose
LOL - love the bit about her making plans of his destruction.
Great touch that she is "more effective at ignoring him than he is at ignoring her." Sets up a dynamic well with just one line!
Love it. Love the way he becomes awkward in her presence. Such fun.
Love the alphabetical reference--Z has a long way to go at that rate! :-)
Well the doctor did say the new nurse manager was efficient. Nice to see her being just that, when it's usually the other way around in romances and the heroine becomes utterly flustered.
I liked the humor -- and the presentiments of still more humor to come.
I totally forgot what day it was and thus didn’t go to the signup page until after it closed. I do have a hook, though, if you get around to visiting it. https://eahoornaert.com/2020/05/12/mfrwhooks-42/
I love shy guys!
Wonder if it's him that makes her accident prone? Interesting post. Thanks for sharing.
Oh, boy. "Z" makes for a long list ahead of her. This is a great excerpt with more than one line with a hook. Sounds fun.
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