The latest story by Harlequin Medical Romance author Amy Andrews, a forbidden love, forced proximity, spicy story for Nurses Day!
Roommates…with tantalizing benefits?
The last person pediatrician Warwick expects to break into his house at midnight is former sister-in-law Caroline. An emergency forced her to evacuate her apartment, and he’s the only person she knows who can help her! Only their unspoken bond—forged in the emotion of the terrible, tragic night he saved her life—electrifies every space they share… Working on the same ward is torture, and sleeping next door to the nurse he shouldn’t want is worse! How long can they resist, now they’re both craving a taste of the forbidden?
From Harlequin Life and love in the world of modern medicine.
Amy is an award-winning, USA Today best-selling Aussie author who has written eighty-five contemporary romances in both the traditional and digital markets.
Her books bring all the feels from sass, quirk and laughter to emotional grit and panty-melting heat.
She loves good books and great booze although she'll take mediocre booze if there's nothing else. For many, many years she was a registered nurse which means she knows things. Anatomical things. And she’s not afraid to use them!
She recently took a sea change and lives by the ocean with her husband of 33 years.
Forbidden Nurse Next door is a welcome return to form in medical romance by Amy Andrews, after the disappointment of Harper and the Single Dad. (I didn't read Forbidden Fling with the Princess as I usually avoid princess/prince romances, finding them too much of a stretch.)
Amy's writing style is a joy: it's relaxed, witty, & flows smoothly. There's occasional swearing, not usually found in Mills & Boon books, which may bother some readers. Would a doctor really say, 'Oh my God', to a 3 year old patient?
Warwick is a beta hero: caring & sensitive, somewhat nerdy, looks like Clark Kent. A sweetheart but strong of character, he's yearned for Caroline since they met when she was 18 & he 20. Unfortunately, on the same day, she also met, and was dazzled by, his egocentic fraternal twin Brad. Caroline & Brad later married but their relationship crashed & burned. To complicate matters, Warwick is best friends with Caroline's protective older brother Hudson.
Eight years on, 30 year old Caroline is ready for a change of scene & moves from Brisbane to Canberra, where paramedic Hudson & paediatrician Warwick now live. She's about to start work at the hospital where Warwick has patients. Caro is living in Hud's apartment while he's travelling around Australia but, in the wee hours, the apartment block residents are evacuated due to serious structural problems. She phones Hud, who suggests she stay at Warwick's house while he's away at a conference. However, Warwick has returned home early. He tries to suppress his feelings for Caroline, who begins to realise just how attractive he is, but things are complicated by all their interwoven relationships...
I thought Warwick a strangely 1950s name for a romantic hero born in the 1990s. I enjoyed the Canberra setting. This is the first romance I've read which is set there, despite it being the national capital & home to 500,000 people. Not many more people live in the Outback, even though it covers around 75% of the Australian land mass, and any number of books are set there!