4 Stars! ~~~ Ms. Andrews weaves wonderful love stories!
The Italian Count’s Baby by Amy Andrews
Mills & Boon Medical – November 2007
Harlequin Medical # 341 – March 2008
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Katya Petrova is a surgical nurse with MedSurg an aid group on missions to the war torn regions of the world. Determined never to become emotionally involved, she thrived on the adrenaline charged environment. Count Beneditto Medeci was Katya’s only source of angst. The playboy surgeon seemed to know just what buttons to push to get her rattled. Katya captivated Ben. No other woman treated him so openly with disdain, and Ben found that intoxicatingly sexy. When Ben receives some devastating news from home, Katya gives Ben the comfort he sorely needs. Ben leaves the mission to return to Italy, and is surprised when Katya calls him for a job at his ritzy clinic. She soon reveals that she is carrying his child and that she has no intentions of raising it. Once the baby is born, Ben will take the child. This situation astounds the traditionalist in Ben, and he proposes, only to be coldly rejected.
We met both Ben and Katya in Ms. Andrews’ The Surgeon’s Meant-To-Be-Bride. It was lovely to meet them again. Katya can’t get past her tragic childhood; one that convinces her that she’d be a horrible mother. Ben has experienced betrayal, and has vowed never to love again. Loving their unborn child is the link these two need to show them their destiny. This is an emotional love story that touches your heart. I like the layers Ms. Andrews gives her characters, their surfaces are so very different from what lies beneath. And I like the way we see inside them; how we get their thoughts and feel their fears. Ms. Andrews weaves wonderful love stories, and I’m eagerly looking forward to catching up on her backlist!
Excellence: Very Good ~ Steaminess: Yummy
My Totals ~ Harlequin Imprint = 13 ~ Other Publisher = 0
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The Italian Count’s Baby by Amy Andrews
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Amy Andrews
Her latest medical was the first one I'd ever read in the series and I'm definitely looking to read more of hers. I have THE SURGEON'S MEANT-TO-BE BRIDE in my stack and just won a nice lot of ebay so hopefully this other Andrews book is in it. If not, I'll keep looking~ I've already wiped out the shelves of two of our used bookstores of this series and I haven't tried a couple of the smaller stores yet.....
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Debbie ......
Amy was so very kind to send me this one .... it hasn't yet been released in North America ... but will be available here at eHarl in March ...... definitely get it, it's a great followup to TSMTBB
she has a lovely voice and I really like her characters ..... there's alot depth to them that often doesn't come through in the shorter fast paced reads
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Thanks...
that is good to know and I'll be keeping an eye out for it. I've been impressed so far by the depth of the storylines for such short books. Truthfully, I was skeptical as short books are never like that... but oh boy was I wrong with this line!
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24/7
Oh Katherine your two reveiws I've just read are wonderful - thank you so much!!
TSMTBB I think is my fav of all my books. I loved the 24 hour format - each chapter being an hour of their last day together before she leaves his life forever. It practically wrote itself and that NEVER happens
I really thought my ed would have a heart attack at the sex scene in chapter one but she said I'd created such great characters I could get away with it.
Such a wise woman 
It also involved a lot more research than I normally need to do so it was a challenge from that perspective too.
I'm pleased the meds are making inroads into all your hearts
Amy
Book one of the Brisbane General Trilogy out Sept. Top-Notch Surgeon, Pregnant Nurse - Gabe and Beth's story set amongst the life and death badckdrop of separating conjoined twins.
Medrom authors have a hot new blog Love Is The Best Medicine.
The Surgeon's Meant-to-be Bride .......
Amy, I thought that sex scene was rather bold of you! ... and so delish! ....... it's a rare thing to have such heat right from page one! .... I loved how you wrote Harry's thoughts as Gill openned the door ..... so sexy!
........ actually, I'm going over to that review to continue my comments
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Promotional Presents
Oh I meant to say that if you miss it online in March it's getting a Promotional Presents release in October. With new packaging including a Presents cover and most especially of all - completely retail!!! There's a few going in over there at the same time under a Mediterranean Docs theme.
I'm VERY excited about that - on shelf, everywhere. In all the big stores. Playing with the big girls
Amy
Book one of the Brisbane General Trilogy out Sept. Top-Notch Surgeon, Pregnant Nurse - Gabe and Beth's story set amongst the life and death badckdrop of separating conjoined twins.
Medrom authors have a hot new blog Love Is The Best Medicine.
TICB
The Italian Count's Baby, that is. Not TSMTBB.
Just thought I'd better clarify.
Amy
Book one of the Brisbane General Trilogy out Sept. Top-Notch Surgeon, Pregnant Nurse - Gabe and Beth's story set amongst the life and death badckdrop of separating conjoined twins.
Medrom authors have a hot new blog Love Is The Best Medicine.
Oh how cool!
And thanks for letting me know since I never check out the Presents line as it's not my thing... but I will be looking out for these!
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Congrats for that Amy!
That's great that this one will be released again as a Promotional Presents ... and even more wonderful that as such it will be on the retail shelves
This will be especially great news for those that need to read eBooks to increase the print size ... many would love to read Medicals but can't because they aren't licenced to be released here as eBooks ..... so as a Promotional that means they'll be in the eBoutique as well! .... very good news
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March Release!!
I just wanted to remind everyone that this one is now available at the eHarl book store!!
The Italian Count's Baby by Amy Andrews
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argh!
I put up the North American cover and I kept staring at it ... couldn't figure out what was wrong ... then went back to the UK cover and um ... well ... pretty obvious now! ..... gosh, I wish the cover art people would pay attention to things like hair colour!! .... the UK cover is correct ... Katya is blond!
North American Cover
UK Cover
So, just a heads up for those of you that visualize the heroes and heroines by their appearance on the covers ... Katya is a blond, not a brunette!
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Ordered
I just ordered this one and can't wait for it to arrive!
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Loved...
Loved this one. And glad I don't look at cover art as um.. yeah. Issues there! But excellent book!
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