Nine-Month Surprise

Nine-Month Surprise
Jacqueline Diamond

This Teacher Is Learning Her Lessons!Ais for AdventureWhen schoolteacher Leah Morris tries to conquer the big city, she's thinking of her career. Except instead of a job, what she lands is one unforgettable encounter with a mystery man….Bis for BustedBack home a few weeks later, she discovers her enigmatic lover is none other than the town's new obstetrician, and now the gossips are busy adding two and two…Cis for CommitmentTroubled relationships have given both the teacher and the doctor a hundred reasons to stick to their no-strings-attached rule….Dis for DenialBut no tall tale can explain away their love or the precious new life they can't undo…

“I meant what I said about getting married.”

For a moment Leah resisted Will’s attempt to pull her toward him. But because she loved the tenderness with which he gathered her to his chest, she yielded.

She enjoyed the slight roughness of his throat and the way his cheek pressed against her hair. Maybe it wasn’t such a bad thing that he’d be visiting their child.

Impulsively, she stole a kiss. As his mouth moved against hers, a kind of enchantment flowed through Leah.

It took all her reserve to pull away. “Bad idea,” she said hoarsely.

“Not all that bad,” Will murmured.

Her mystery man from Texas was in her house. He’d kissed her again. He’d asked her to marry him.

She wondered how on earth they were going to work this out. One thing she knew for sure—if she didn’t land a new job in Seattle, she’d have to find one somewhere else.

Because she no longer trusted herself….

Dear Reader,

Nine-Month Surprise is the second of three books set in Downhome, Tennessee, a town that needs doctors and offers them a second chance—with dramatic and romantic results.

Many physicians today practice medicine in an environment worlds apart from the one in which my father served as a small-town doctor. He treated patients in rural Kentucky just prior to World War II, served in the army during the war and later became a physician in the small town of Menard, Texas. In later years he completed his residency in psychiatry and practiced in Nashville, Tennessee.

Today, medical treatment has become highly technological, subject to insurance restrictions and complicated by lawsuits. What I’ve created is an idealized situation, one that I believe many doctors would enjoy.

The story of Will and Leah involves a familiar theme—the unplanned baby—but to me it became fresh because these two strong characters made it their own. I hope you’ll enjoy it!

The third book in the series will focus on the relationship between Karen Lowell and Dr. Chris McRay. Although she once loved him, his testimony sent her brother to prison for a crime he didn’t commit.

If you enjoy this book, please e-mail me at jdiamondfriends@aol.com and visit my Web site at www.jacquelinediamond.com.

Happy reading!

Nine-Month Surprise

Jacqueline Diamond

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

In memory of Maurice Hyman, M.D.

Books by Jacqueline Diamond

HARLEQUIN AMERICAN ROMANCE

913—THE IMPROPERLY PREGNANT PRINCESS

962—DIAGNOSIS: EXPECTING BOSS’S BABY

971—PRESCRIPTION: MARRY HER IMMEDIATELY

978—PROGNOSIS: A BABY? MAYBE

1046—THE BABY’S BODYGUARD

1075—THE BABY SCHEME

1094—THE POLICE CHIEF’S LADY * (#litres_trial_promo)

Contents

Chapter One (#u42e17ba3-982c-54d2-bc16-63bac76dc952)

Chapter Two (#u529211b8-47d7-599c-b450-a88c45dc317b)

Chapter Three (#u0f93be1f-2143-55e1-93ff-efdeeae4f812)

Chapter Four (#uf4c85ded-5315-5d82-95fb-75e53969d414)

Chapter Five (#u94d94342-5f9c-5dce-8587-a740a1f83082)

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)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)