Top-Notch Men!: In Her Boss's Special Care

Top-Notch Men!: In Her Boss's Special Care
Anne Fraser

Margaret McDonagh

MELANIE MILBURNE

In Her Boss’s Special Care Dr Joel Addison makes his Melbourne hospital the best. The only problem is beautiful, feisty anaesthetist, Allegra. Her controversial ideas are risking his reputation. Allegra is determined to prove him wrong, but a fierce attraction flares between them. Now she’s going to show him just how perfect they are together – professionally and personally! A Doctor Worth Waiting ForConor Anderson was immediately intrigued by Kate Fisher. As guarded as Kate was, she couldn’t hide that she was a passionate woman. But it was only a matter of time before Kate’s past would send her on the run again… Could this playboy doctor finally have met his match? And could he bring the light back to her beautiful eyes?Dr Campbell’s Secret SonSarah Carruthers has worked hard to get where she is and now, as a single mum, life is even tougher! Good-looking doctor Jamie Campbell had no idea when he left that he had fathered a son. Now Sarah is back in his life, can Jamie convince her to trust him again and allow them to become a family?

Top-Notch Men!

In Her Boss’s

Special Care

Melanie Milburne

A Doctor Worth

Waiting For

Margaret McDonagh

Dr Campbell’s

Secret Son

Anne Fraser

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

In Her Boss’s Special Care

Dear Reader,

One of the great privileges of being a writer is spending time with your beloved characters, talking to them, getting to know them, playing with them and then at the end of the book leaving them to get on with your own life. I guess it’s a bit like being a grandparent—at the end of the day you hand the little darlings back!

How easy would it be for people like my hero Joel and his parents to walk away from what life has dished out to them? Such a dilemma was the premise for this novel and I couldn’t think of a better heroine than Allegra Tallis, who showed such amazing compassion and hope against all odds.

However, outside of romantic literature not every story has a happy ending, and it is for this reason I dedicated this book to my three nephews and nieces, who daily deal with the human tragedy of what Joel Addison had to face.

My special thoughts and heartfelt love to all who have to do the same.

Melanie Milburne

About the Author

MELANIE MILBURNE says: “I am married to a surgeon, Steve, and have two gorgeous sons, Paul and Phil. I live in Hobart, Tasmania, where I enjoy an active life as a long-distance runner and a nationally ranked top ten Master’s swimmer. I also have a Master’s Degree in Education, but my children totally turned me off the idea of teaching! When not running or swimming I write, and when I’m not doing all of the above I’m reading. And if someone could invent a way for me to read during a four-kilometre swim I’d be even happier!”

To my nephews and niece Ben, Tommy, Peter and

Katherine (Kathy) McNamara. You have all been

through so much in your young lives and I am in awe

of how you have coped. I love each of you very dearly

and dedicate this book to you in acknowledgement of

your struggles, your tragedies and your joys that I will

always share with you, not with a glance of pity but

with the steady gaze of compassion.

I would also like to give my heartfelt thanks and

appreciation to the doctors and nursing staff of the

Royal Hobart Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit for their

invaluable help in the research conducted for this

novel, as well as Dee Nally from Salamanca Pharmacy

for her advice. Thank you all!

CHAPTER ONE

‘WHAT do you mean, he wants me to stop my research on the coma recovery assessment project?’ Allegra Tallis asked the nursing sister on duty in Intensive Care. ‘That’s outrageous. The CEO gave me his full support, I’ve got ethics approval and I’ve got funding!’

Louise Banning gave her a sympathetic look. ‘I know all that but Dr Addison is the new Director of ICTU and A and E now, and what he says goes.’

‘Not if I can help it,’ Allegra growled. ‘I’m not giving up months of research to satisfy some control freak’s demands to run a tight ship. Who does he think he is anyway? He might be the new director but if he thinks he can tell me what to—’

‘Dr Tallis?’ A deep male voice spoke from just behind her. ‘We haven’t had the opportunity to meet since I arrived. I’d like to speak to you in my office—now, if you don’t mind.’

Allegra swung around to see a tall dark-haired man in his early thirties towering over her, the deep brown intensity of his eyes as they connected with hers making her throat move up and down involuntarily in a tiny swallow.

‘Oh … Dr Addison. Well, I’m just seeing a patient right now …’ she said.

His gaze hardened as one dark brow lifted in an arc of derision. ‘Sister Banning is your patient, is she?’

Allegra tightened her mouth. ‘No, of course not—I mean in the unit. I can see you in about five minutes.’

‘Make if four,’ he said. ‘I’ve got a crammed schedule this morning.’ He continued on this way, his starched white coat brushing against her arm as he went past.

Louise’s brows rose expressively once he was out of their hearing. ‘Not the best first meeting, I would say.’

‘No.’ Allegra frowned crossly. ‘Well, I’ve been on night shift for the last week. I wasn’t here for his welcome thingy.’ She twisted her mouth and added, ‘God, what a pompous idiot.’