THE RESCUE DOCTOR'S BABY MIRACLE
May, 2007 UK release (www.millsandboon.co.uk)
July, 2007 US release (www.eHarlequin.com)

A new life - a new hope...

When Dr. Gideon Merrill finds out Lorna Preston is coming to film his search-and-rescue operation in a storm-devastated Brazilian village, everything he's tried to forget comes flooding back. Their passionate affair, their failed marriage - the baby they lost. Forced to work with her, he's soon struck by how different - how incredible - Lorna is.

But a night of passion changes everything, and as they work their miracles to save countless lives, Gideon knows he and Lorna might just have made a tiny miracle of their own. Could a precious new life herald the start of an amazing new future - together?

Excerpt:

Gideon stopped just outside the opening to the tent and looked in rather than entering. It was a sight he hadn't expected, and one that shouldn't have bothered him. But seeing Lorna sitting there, cradling and rocking a baby, knocked the breath out of him. She would have been a beautiful mother. Even now, with someone else's child, she fairly glowed. And the expression on her face as she talked to the child - or was she singing a lullaby? - that expression was as close to perfect contentment as he'd ever seen.

He tried not to think about it too often, about losing their child. Sometimes though, in the empty moments, he still fantasized what it would have been like being a father. At times he pictured himself as a father to a little boy, playing ball and all the games little boys like to play. Often, that fantasy was so real that when he opened his eyes to find it was only a daydream he became physically ill. Then there were times when he was the father of a beautiful little girl. She looked like Lorna - same smile, same wide eyes. Then his heart broke because that would never happen.

Did Lorna still think about it? Did her heart still break?

Gideon watched until Lorna laid the child down in a pile of soft bedding, then kiss her gently on the cheek, before he turned and walked away. He'd been angry and hurt when they'd lost the baby. He'd felt cheated. Now, he just felt empty. As much as he loved Max, a dog simply didn't fill the void. And that void had become so much bigger now that Lorna was here.

Sighing, Gideon headed over to the food tent for a bitter cup of coffee, then wandered over to the supply tent to check the rescue grid and plot the next group out. As he passed by the hospital tent, he didn't look in at Lorna, didn't look in at the child she still sat with. He couldn't. Not right now. Not while the fantasy of Lorna sitting next to the bed of their child, singing a gentle lullaby, was ripping at his heart.