Midwife's Mistletoe Baby

Midwife's Mistletoe Baby
Fiona McArthur

It’s Christmas in Lyrebird Lake, but nine months after midwife Maeve’s magical night with Rayne Walters she’s preparing for the birth of her baby – alone. Rayne’s arrest the morning-after-the-night-before left Maeve reeling, but now he’s back…and shocked to discover that Maeve is pregnant – with his baby! Can Rayne convince Maeve he’s here to stay?Christmas in Lyrebird Lake: where Christmas miracles can happen…

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‘CHRISTMAS WITH HER EX is everything a good medical romance should be, and it tells a story which resonates with everything Christmas stands for.’

—HarlequinJunkie

‘McArthur does full justice to an intensely emotional scene of the delivery of a stillborn baby—one that marks a turning point in both the characters’ outlooks. The entire story is liberally spiced with drama, heartfelt emotion and just a touch of humour.’

—RT Book Reviews on SURVIVAL GUIDE TO DATING YOUR BOSS

‘MIDWIFE IN A MILLION by Fiona McArthur will leave readers full of exhilaration. Ms McArthur has created characters that any reader could fall in love with.’

—CataRomance

Midwife’s Mistletoe Baby

Fiona McArthur

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

Dear Reader (#ulink_17e38239-a413-5961-b3cb-b9f6a6a8d6b9)

Welcome to Rayne and Maeve in Lyrebird Lake at Christmas time.

Wow. I hope you have fun with this. I was grinning all the way through. Rayne and Maeve wrote their story and I was just trying to keep up with them—two people with sooo much sexual chemistry between them, and both of them such determined people in their own right, with really tough dilemmas.

Most of my heroes and heroines are pretty private, and they prefer it if I leave the bedroom door firmly closed—but, while still avoiding anatomical explanations, Rayne and Maeve are so aware of the physical in each other they just can’t keep their hands off and sometimes forget to shut the door. But it’s still sweet.

So it’s not surprising that after an explosive first night, right at the beginning, Maeve falls pregnant. As Rayne says, ‘If there was one night when, no matter how many precautions were used, a determined sperm would get through that was the night.’

Fast forward nine months and Rayne returns, unaware that Maeve is about to have his baby—and as a guy emotionally scarred by his childhood and with no male role model he can’t see how he can become the kind of father Maeve’s baby deserves.

Maeve has to come to terms with the fact that Rayne walked away, didn’t answer her letters, and let her down in her pregnancy. But he’s here now—exactly what she so desperately wanted for Christmas—and after the first day with him back she believes in him … believes that Rayne has the potential to share the love he’s never had a chance to share. She just has to help him to see it, and hopefully he’ll become a believer before she has this baby. Thankfully she’s in Lyrebird Lake, and with all the people she needs around her this is the place to do it.

I’d really love to hear what you think of Rayne and Maeve’s journey.

Warmest wishes

Fi

PS I really loved Simon giving Tara, from the previous book, Russian dolls for Christmas!

Dedication (#ulink_e64ff989-e1af-5b1e-9ffb-603caa94b11c)

Dedicated to my darling husband, Ian.

Because I love you

xx Fiona

Table of Contents

Cover (#ud844a3e4-16d1-5e7b-a249-1aaed258cefa)

Praise for Fiona McArthur (#u92f047ed-eb7e-59a7-aa4e-cd95884ddb8c)

Title Page (#ue279d739-5368-5dc5-ad1b-ebaf6b20a1ff)

Dear Reader (#u5dfa84b9-ab23-5cff-845b-596b6c270ccb)

Dedication (#u5c8e80bd-9640-5481-bc7e-b1fdaaf9cb03)

PROLOGUE (#u9d4f2361-f0b6-5cca-bd48-e1f4fea99e2f)

CHAPTER ONE (#uae6739b8-de0c-5fd4-9ae7-4242b597664c)

CHAPTER TWO (#u73afaac0-5329-5c13-a661-ef7eef399c43)

CHAPTER THREE (#ufb49c282-bfca-5eaf-9f05-c9fcff0d728b)

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)

CHAPTER ELEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

PROLOGUE (#ulink_b1577430-05c3-5f2b-b9ff-7b1fc610ed4c)

March

RAYNE WALTERS BREATHED a sigh of relief as he passed through immigration and then customs at Sydney airport, deftly texted—I’m through—and walked swiftly towards the exit. Simon would be quick to pick him up. Very efficient was Simon.

He’d had that feeling of disaster closing in since the hiccough at LA when he’d thought he’d left it too late. But the customs officers had just hesitated and then frowned at him and waved him through.