Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Wednesday Pursuing Doctor West #MFRWHooks #BWLAuthor #Romance contemporary #medical #Humor

Pursuing Doctor West

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

BLURB:
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?



Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2015
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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.

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2015
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This book is so funny and charming. It was an absolute joy to read

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Excerpt
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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.







10 comments:

J.Q. Rose said...

Love your medical books with romance.
JQ Rose

Daryl Devoré said...

LOL - love the bit about her making plans of his destruction.

Emerald said...

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!

J. Arlene Culiner said...

Love it. Love the way he becomes awkward in her presence. Such fun.

McKenna Dean said...

Love the alphabetical reference--Z has a long way to go at that rate! :-)

Holly Bargo said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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/

Becky Flade said...

I love shy guys!

Tena Stetler said...

Wonder if it's him that makes her accident prone? Interesting post. Thanks for sharing.

Mary J. McCoy-Dressel said...

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.