Time’s running out...
...on their Highland fling!
Pediatrician Georgie Jones knows how she’s going to deal with the pain her cheating late husband caused—move to Edinburgh! The last thing she needs is to share a house with gorgeous consultant Ryan McGregor, but living under the same roof only intensifies their attraction! Their stolen kiss under the northern lights is inevitable, and potentially life changing if Georgie chooses to let her heart lead the way...
Changing Shifts
Swapping lives, finding love!
In London, widowed pediatrician Georgie is struggling with everyone’s sympathy when no one knows her husband was having an affair.
In Edinburgh, pediatrician Clara’s dreams of having a family lie in tatters as her ex parades his new love around.
Through a job-swap website, Georgie and Clara impulsively swap cities and hospitals to escape their real lives and embark on new adventures!
But when they arrive at their new destinations, both women find the last thing either wants or expects—romance!
Read Georgie’s story in
Fling with Her Hot-Shot Consultant
And Clara’s story in
Family for the Children’s Doc
Both available now!
Dear Reader,
Scarlet Wilson and I really wanted to write a duet together, with our heroines being complete fish out of water—and we came up with the idea of a job swap. So we plotted together, and my London-based heroine falls for her heroine’s best friend in a tiny cottage in the gorgeous countryside outside Edinburgh, while her heroine falls for my heroine’s brother smack in the middle of a posh bit of London.
But why would you want to swap jobs and lives with someone in the first place? In Georgie’s case, it was to escape her past, and in doing so, she helps Ryan to overcome his past. They start off completely at odds with each other, but, with a bit of canine help, discover that maybe they aren’t as bad together as they thought.
Add in men in kilts, the northern lights, a gorgeous beach in Edinburgh, Scottish castles and some very nosy sheep—and I hope you enjoy Georgie and Ryan’s journey.
With love,
Kate Hardy
Fling with Her Hot-Shot Consultant
Kate Hardy
Kate Hardy has always loved books, and could read before she went to school. She discovered Harlequin books when she was twelve, and decided that this was what she wanted to do. When she isn’t writing, Kate enjoys reading, cinema, ballroom dancing and the gym. You can contact her via her website: katehardy.com.
Books by Kate Hardy
Harlequin Medical Romance
Miracles at Muswell Hill Hospital
Christmas with Her Daredevil Doc
Their Pregnancy Gift
Unlocking the Italian Doc’s Heart
Carrying the Single Dad’s Baby
Heart Surgeon, Prince...Husband!
A Nurse and a Pup to Heal Him
Mistletoe Proposal on the Children’s Ward
Harlequin Romance
A Crown by Christmas
Soldier Prince’s Secret Baby Gift
A Diamond in the Snow
Finding Mr. Right in Florence
One Night to Remember
Visit the Author Profile page at Harlequin.com for more titles.
To Scarlet—always great fun working with you!
Praise for Kate Hardy
“Ms. Hardy has definitely penned a fascinating read in this book...once the hero confesses to the heroine his plan for a marriage of convenience, I was absolutely hooked.”
—Harlequin Junkie on Heart Surgeon, Prince...Husband!
Contents
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
EXCERPT FROM FAMILY FOR THE CHILDREN'S DOC BY SCARLET WILSON
PROLOGUE
GEORGIE HAD BEEN secretly haunting the website for a week now.
Job swap.
The idea was that you’d swap your job and your house with a stranger for six months. Various health trusts across the country had signed up to the initiative, so all you had to do was find a match. Someone who did the same job as you; someone who maybe wanted some experience in a different place to enrich their working life.
Was it running away? Or was it just what she needed to give her a fresh start?
It wouldn’t be without complications. She’d be letting Joshua down, for a start. Her elder brother was a single dad who relied on her for help with childcare for his daughter Hannah—and Georgie loved her brother and her niece dearly. She didn’t want to let them down.
But over the last year London had become more and more of a prison; and she was oh, so tired of being seen as Poor Georgie, widowed at twenty-nine and being so brave about carrying on. Poor Georgie, who hero husband Charlie had been part of a team of emergency doctors helping after an earthquake and had been killed trying to save someone.
Poor, poor Georgie...
If only everyone knew the truth about Charlie. But how she could shatter everyone’s illusions? His family and friends didn’t deserve that. The way she saw it, they should be able to mourn the man they’d loved without seeing the side he’d kept hidden. Which meant she had to keep his secrets. So far, she’d managed it, because in a weird sort of way keeping that secret was protecting her, too; but she was getting to the point where she felt as if she’d explode if she didn’t get away from all the memories and the pity.
So today she’d look at the website again to see if there was a match. If there wasn’t a suitable match for her, she would take it as a sign to stay exactly where she was and stop being so pathetic and just get on with things. If there was a match, then it was a sign she should leave.
Location.
That meant hers: west London.
Position.
So far, so good: paediatric registrar.
Desired location.
That was harder. ‘Anywhere’ meant just that. And, even though she wanted to get out of London, she didn’t want to go somewhere really remote. Not, she supposed, that there were that many remote hospitals. That field was probably meant for the GPs—ones who maybe wanted to swap an isolated rural practice to gain experience in the fast pace of a city practice; or maybe those who were burned out by inner-city medicine and craved a country idyll for a while.
Somewhere by the sea...
No. She could’ve run away to her parents’ at any time, but she hadn’t taken that option then and she
