Sunday - Looking at My Books - Choices #MFRWauthor #medicalromance #hospitalpolitics

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In Janet Lane Walters' Choices, published by Books We Love, Johanna Gordon devotes her time and energy to her job as Director of Nursing at Hudson Community Hospital. With budget cuts hanging over her head, Johanna suspects the CEO of scheming a plan that threatens her job as well as the hospital, and she’s determined to find out why. 
The choices she’s made for herself and her career leave her with no social life until she meets Dylan Connelly. He’s everything she’s always wanted, loving, devoted to his kids and everything she’s never had. Just when she finds love with the new man, an old flame returns with promises of a life together. Johanna has to decide between security and companionship, while trying to recapture the past, or moving forward with her new life.

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Choices
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Choices
Johanna lives a lonely live. But as the book progresses you see that her life is filled with friends, just not a life partner.
She is director of nursing at a hospital and needs to proof that the CEO is wasting money.
Then Dylan comes into her life. He makes her laugh.
You read about Jo's younger life and the choices her parents made for her. Her sister was mentally disabled and her parents did not want to bring other people into their house. That meant that Johanne could never bring her boyfriend.
She meets up with Blaine, the college boyfriend, again.
They don't see eye to eye on his cousin, the CEO of the hospital.
Life happens and Johanna chooses.

By Elizabeth Davis

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Choices was a great story about real people. They were not young, slender, impossibly beautiful and ridiculously wealthy but older people with real lives that I could care about. Well developed characters and a good plot.

Sunday, Looking at my books - Choices by Janet Lane Walters #MFRWauthor #Suspense #BooksWeLove

Choices was begun as a sequel to a book that had been published but then the line changed. I had just four chapters written and put it aside. Not only because I wasn't sure where to send the book but also I had written myself to the point where I didn't know where the story was going. The heroine originally was in her fifties and had never been married or had much to do with men. Not a great start for a romance.

When I went back and looked at it, I realized I did like the heroine but I'd made her much too old. She now became the Director of Nursing at the hospital where she'd worked since graduating. I gave her an old affair with a doctor who used ehr and walked away, a college sweetheart who couldn't stand the fact that she had a sister who was mentally challenged. I also wanted to put a bit of intrigue into the story. The villain of the story became the hospital's CEO who wanted to destroy the nurse's union by forcing a strike. Not only that but he wanted to farm many of the hospital services such as food services and cleaning to companies used by friends of his.

Now I had that part of the plot so I needed to give the heroine a romance. In a way I gave her two. She rescues a kitted and nearly gets hit by a car. She's rescued by the owner of a local bar/restaurant. He is a widower with grown children and he finds her sad and fascinating. Then back into her life comes the old college flame who has an anemia and he regrets walking away from her. He's divorced. To add a complication here, his nephew is the hospital's CEO.

The story was fun to write and some of the things I put in the book I found in newspaper articles after I'd written the book and it was published. Life can sometimes imitate fiction.

Sunday - Looking at my books - Code Blue by Janet Lane Walters #MFRWauthor #Suspense #BooksWeLove

Code Blue is the only book I wrote while working as a nurse but the version began during that time was not the version that ended up being published. The character I had envisioned as the heroine became one of the victims of the killer. In the initial version, the killer remained offstage with just hints of him during the story. One of the victims in the initial story became the heroine and a hero was added in but he does play a minor part in the story.

Why did I make the changes? The initial heroine was too young and just beginning her career. She didn't have enough meat on her bones or problems to make her a good heroine. The new heroine was a widow who had returned to work after her husband's death and one facing life changes and a change in a relationship with her dead husband's best friend. Control became the underpinning of the story.

What remained of the original story were the murders, the medical research, especially discussions I had with doctors to pinpoint how the killing blows would effect those who died. There was also information obtained by a patient who was a police officer at the time I was mulling over the book. So much of the original remained but the focus of the story changed. While there were still the three components of a story heroine, hero and villain, this time the hero takes the back seat and the story becomes something between the heroine and the villain.

The book is now available for download as a Kindle book and recently released in print by Books We Love.

So here's the blurb and some reactions from reviewers.



When Susan finds the body of the hospital’s “gossip queen” in the orthopedic storage room, she doesn’t realize this is the first of a series of murders involving her colleagues or that her life is in danger. She is a widow and is exploring a new romantic relationship that promises love, but she fears the man she is falling for is as controlling as her dead husband. The arrival of courtship gifts, first seen as innocuous, soon takes on a sinister note.
Previously published as Obsessions
"This book kept me on edge from the first page to the last. Several times I just 'knew' I'd figured out who the killer was, but each time, there was a bit of doubt there until the very last paragraph! I highly recommend this book. 4 Stars (Excellent!)" ~ Tracie's Book Reviews by Kathy's Faves and Raves

"A series of murders, suspense, action, a tad of love makes Code Blue an intriguing tale designed to mystify your mind. If you love mysteries, you'll love Janet Lane Walters newest release. 4 Stars!" ~ Just Views

"Fast-paced mainstream novel. . .Walters plots carefully, each scene constructed to perfection. For readers who enjoy being terrified, this is an author to turn to for entertainment. She tells all, while managing to create paranoia among the characters." ~ Affaire de Coeur