Doctor at Risk

Doctor at Risk
Alison Roberts

An injured doctor… and his determined nurse!Dr. Ross Turnball and Nurse Wendy Watson fell in love on an Urban Search and Rescue course. It ending explosively, with a dramatic mission to rescue people from a bombed shopping mall—and an accident that nearly claimed Ross's life. Now Ross struggles to regain her health—and he's terrified he'll lose Wendy's love. Wendy knows that as long as she's with Ross nothing else matters. But can she persuade him of that?

‘I’ve been thinking a lot about you since last night, Ross,’ she said a little hesitantly. ‘About us.’

‘There can’t be any “us” any more. I told you that,’ Ross said wearily. Ending their relationship had been even harder than he’d thought it would be last night. He didn’t have the strength to do it again. He closed his eyes. ‘It’s over.’

‘Not as far as I’m concerned,’ Wendy said quietly. She blinked hard, determined not to cry, as her fingers moved gently over his. ‘I love you, Ross. Nothing can change that.’

CITY SEARCH AND RESCUE

Life and love are on the line…

The Team

Dedicated professionals—

doctors, nurses, paramedics, police and firefighters—

trained to save lives in urban disasters.

The Dangers

A crowded building collapses, and in the aftermath of

the disaster the team must save innocent lives—

at the risk of their own…

The Romance

Passions run high as the dramas unfold—

and life and love are on the line!

DOCTOR AT RISK

is the heart-pounding conclusion

to Alison Roberts’s

CITY SEARCH AND RESCUE trilogy.

Recent titles by the same author:

THE NURSE’S RESCUE

(City Search and Rescue Book 2—

Joe and Jessica’s story)

CONSULTANT IN CRISIS

(City Search and Rescue Book 1—

Kelly and Fletch’s story)

THE SURGEON’S CHILD

SURGEON ON CALL

Doctor at Risk

Alison Roberts

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

CONTENTS

Chapter One (#u48a83f3b-b728-528f-a8cb-8ccc7c669ccd)

Chapter Two (#u3ede25ac-741b-54eb-9771-c2032863e029)

Chapter Three (#u81e6539d-3110-5906-ac41-97d23de62aa4)

Chapter Four (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER ONE

HE COULD smell the danger.

Mountain rescues could be dangerous enough but they never smelt like this. Of thick dust and heat. Of unwashed and exhausted people. He could smell the sudden fear that kicked in when their hazardous environment reminded them of precisely where they were. Sometimes he could smell the incongruous aroma of foodstuffs or perfume. And sometimes he could smell blood and the dreadful stench of death.

Dr Ross Turnball would have picked a mountain rescue in preference any time. Clean, cold air or the relatively safe smell of wood smoke. The scent of the carpet of decomposing vegetation that might be released by the tread of heavy boots or the far less pleasant aroma of a long-dead possum. He would be hearing the moan of a southerly storm brewing or the rattle of scree dislodged by a careless step to go cascading down a barren slope. Or perhaps he would be listening to the welcome chop of helicopter rotors as back-up arrived.