Medical

Dr. Katrina Gregory was burned once after a bad break-up with a former colleague. Her deafness put a barrier between her and her then-boyfriend. She won't make that mistake again, and certainly not with sexy children's doctor Rhys Morgan.

I picked this up at my public library and, not surprisingly since I've enjoyed the Hideaway novels, found another page-turner. Imagine my happy surprise when, while looking on the author's web-site, I discovered Steeple Hill will be reprinting this series summer 2009! Wah-hoo!

Well, it truly took me forever to get into this book.  I just couldn't, but I made myself finish it.  It takes place in flooded Murrawarra (Australia) and Harry Graham comes to save the day with his army while Kirsten McPherson is the local doctor on hand who has to evacuate the hospital and put the patients in an old convent. 

They were engaged 5 years ago, but the heroine dumped him days before the wedding via a letter.  She left him because her grandmother who raised her had cancer and needed her care.  The hero had been offered a very important medical internship out of the country: if she had told the hero she needed to stay at home with her grandmother, the hero would have stayed with her and given up the internship, and she wanted him to have the career he wanted.  She was trying to be selfless, but her abandoning him made the hero very bitter, he never married after his relationship with her. 

Vital Signs is a very emotional book. It takes you into the pediatric ward of a hospital where life runs the gamut from almost healthy to dying children. This is Hailey Bergstrom's world. She loves being a nurse - even when she feels so sad she wants to ball her eyes out. But she's gratified when she's the one they call to comfort the children and parents of this special ward. And she'll do anything to keep the spirits up of her precious charges.

Returning to Cypress Landing brings back the best-- and worst--moments of Cade Wheeler's life. Because the bayou was where he'd first tasted the sweetness of love and the bitterness of loss….

They are certainly right doctors make the worst patients. This is one of the premises of this book along with the fact , that he can not make his intentions clear at first. I really enjoyed this book.