Just One Night?

Just One Night?
CAROL MARINELLI

Once is never enough!Head Midwife Isla Delamere is hiding something. She might be Melbourne’s most glamorous socialite, but she’s still a virgin. She’s never met a man to tempt her…until she’s kissed by gorgeous new doc on the block, Alessi Manos!Working alongside Isla is sweet torture for Alessi – all he wants to do is strip off her scrubs! ‘Forever’ isn’t in his vocabulary, but he’ll make sure she always remembers their one night together. Except keeping to his own rules is impossible, especially when Alessi discovers Isla’s secret…Midwives On-CallMidwives, mothers and babies—lives changing for ever…!

MIDWIVES ON-CALL

Welcome to Melbourne Victoria Hospital—and to the exceptional midwives who make up the Melbourne Maternity Unit!

These midwives in a million work miracles on a daily basis, delivering tiny bundles of joy into the arms of their brand-new mums!

Amidst the drama and emotion of babies arriving at all hours of the day and night, when the shifts are over, somehow there’s still time for some sizzling out-of-hours romance …

Whilst these caring professionals might come face-to-face with a whole lot of love in their line of work, now it’s their turn to find a happy-ever-after of their own!

Midwives On-Call

Midwives, mothers and babies—lives changing for ever …!

Dear Reader (#ufd2e856c-96b7-56ee-ab83-51cb65b90a08),

I was thrilled to be a part of the Midwives On-Call series, and to work alongside some of my favourite authors.

We all have secrets, or sides to ourselves that we might not reveal, and that really is the case with my heroine, Isla—she is outwardly strong, with a demanding job and an exciting social life, but there is a side to her that she lets no one see. I knew it would take a very special hero to discover the real Isla, behind the rather glamorous façade. Alessi is all that and more.

I hope you enjoy Isla and Alessi’s story.

Happy reading!

Carol x

CAROL MARINELLI recently filled in a form where she was asked for her job title and was thrilled, after all these years, to be able to put down her answer as ‘writer’. Then it asked what Carol did for relaxation. After chewing her pen for a moment Carol put down the truth—‘writing’. The third question asked: ‘What are your hobbies?’ Well, not wanting to look obsessed or, worse still, boring, she crossed the fingers on her free hand and answered ‘swimming and tennis’. But, given that the chlorine in the pool does terrible things to her highlights, and the closest she’s got to a tennis racket in the last couple of years is watching the Australian Open, I’m sure you can guess the real answer!

Just One Night?

Carol Marinelli

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

Table of Contents

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Dear Reader

About the Author (#ue55b4126-1e33-5a52-973a-ecd588ac0777)

Title Page (#ueaef09e8-91c9-5403-888d-7a6a8b089e64)

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

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PROLOGUE (#ufd2e856c-96b7-56ee-ab83-51cb65b90a08)

‘ISLA …’ THE PANIC and fear was evident in Cathy’s voice. ‘What are all those alarms?’

‘They’re truly nothing to worry about,’ Isla said, glancing over to the anaesthetist and pleased to see that he was changing the alarm settings so as to cause minimal distress to Cathy.

‘Was it about the baby?’

Isla shook her head. ‘It was just letting the anaesthetist know that your blood pressure is a little bit low but we expect that when you’ve been given an epidural.’ Isla sat on a stool at the head of the theatre table and did her best to reassure a very anxious Cathy as her husband, Dan, got changed to come into Theatre and be there for his wife.

‘It’s not the baby that’s making all the alarms go off?’ Cathy checked again.

‘No, everything looks fine with the baby.’