It Happened One Night Shift

It Happened One Night Shift
Amy Andrews

A stolen kiss in the ERFive years ago brooding ex-military medic Gareth Stapleton lost his beloved wife to breast cancer. Since then he’s kept his distance from everything and everyone. Until Dr Billie Ashworth-Keyes waltzes into his life and turns it upside-down…Gareth is intrigued by the vivacious ER doc, but he knows she’s off-limits. Then, one night shift, Gareth finds himself locked in the hottest kiss of his life! Suddenly he realises that Billie is exactly what he needs to make his days—and nights—a lot more meaningful!

AMY ANDREWS has always loved writing, and still can’t quite believe that she gets to do it for a living. Creating wonderful heroines and gorgeous heroes and telling their stories is an amazing way to pass the day. Sometimes they don’t always act as she’d like them to—but then neither do her kids, so she’s kind of used to it. Amy lives in the very beautiful Samford Valley, with her husband and aforementioned children, along with six brown chooks and two black dogs. She loves to hear from her readers. Drop her a line at www.amyandrews.com.au (http://www.amyandrews.com.au)

Dear Reader (#u7a1fd3dd-edfd-5059-b38a-1290006d28b9)

This is the first book I’ve written where my hero is a nurse. I’ve been toying with doing it for a long time, but I didn’t really have a scenario in my head until recently. Then I saw ex-military triage nurse Gareth in my mind’s eye and knew I had my hero.

He’s tough and strong and self-reliant, but after thirty doctor/paramedic heroes I thought I’d meet resistance from my editor over Gareth being a nurse and Billie, the heroine, being a doctor. Not the case, however. I was given free rein to bring their story to life and I’m so grateful—because Gareth is just the hero that Billie needs: supportive when required, but challenging her to be the person she is … not the person others want her to be. And Billie is just the woman Gareth needs—dragging him back into the world of the living. Helping him live, laugh and love again. Showing him that there is another life for him.

Both of them have pasts that make going ahead with the future complicated. Both of them are facing demons. But that is the beauty and power of love. And for Gareth and Billie falling hard is inevitable.

I hope you enjoy their journey.

Love

Amy

It Happened

One Night Shift

Amy Andrews

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

Dedication (#u7a1fd3dd-edfd-5059-b38a-1290006d28b9)

I dedicate this book to all my lovely nursing friends from the former Royal Children’s Hospital. Twenty-one years is a long time to be in any one place and I have enjoyed every moment—even the harrowing ones. I will miss you all.

Table of Contents

Cover (#u95da4ed3-7993-5635-84c2-3d51c5366c62)

About the Author (#u217fc8b1-5c1d-56a6-90bb-97a8604c009f)

Dear Reader

Title Page (#u32068bcd-79c0-5bd9-b4a7-9043c16bbf2e)

Dedication

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

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

CHAPTER NINETEEN

CHAPTER TWENTY

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER ONE (#u7a1fd3dd-edfd-5059-b38a-1290006d28b9)

GARETH STAPLETON DROPPED his head from side to side, stretching out his traps as he kept his eyes on the road.

He was getting too old for this crap.

It had been a long, crazy shift in the emergency room and he needed a beer, a shower and his bed.