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Their Christmas Dream Come True
A Christmas kiss - their secret wish!
When Kit and Natalie Rodgers lost their baby boy, nothing felt it would ever be the same again.
After six years apart, they unexpectedly find themselves working together in the paediatrics department at St Joseph's. So much has changed - but they rediscover the intense feelings that originally brought them together.
They spend one wonderful night in each other�s arms, and begin to wonder if their secret wish to be together just might come true...
When Kit and Natalie Rodgers lost their baby boy, nothing felt it would ever be the same again.
After six years apart, they unexpectedly find themselves working together in the paediatrics department at St Joseph's. So much has changed - but they rediscover the intense feelings that originally brought them together.
They spend one wonderful night in each other�s arms, and begin to wonder if their secret wish to be together just might come true...
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Published May 4, 2007
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Kate Hardy
937 books263 followersKate Hardy is the award-winning author of more than 100 books for Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Georgina Drake cozy crime series for Storm. Her novel 'Breakfast at Giovanni's' won the RNA Romance Prize in 2008, 'Bound by a Baby' won the RNA RoNA Rose in 2014 and ‘A Will, A Wish, A Wedding’ won the RNA Liberta Books Shorter Fiction award in 2021. She's been shortlisted six more times for the award, as well as for two Romantic Times awards.
She lives in Norwich in the east of England with her husband, two grown-up children, springer spaniels Archie and Dexter, and too many books to count. She's a bit of a nerd who loves cinema, live music, the theatre, ballet, history and cooking, and adores anything Italian. She loves doing research, particularly if it's hands-on and means experimenting with cooking. Reviewers say that her books are full of warmth, heart and charm - and also that you'll learn something new and interesting from them!
Kate also writes bestselling local history books under the name of Pamela Brooks.
She lives in Norwich in the east of England with her husband, two grown-up children, springer spaniels Archie and Dexter, and too many books to count. She's a bit of a nerd who loves cinema, live music, the theatre, ballet, history and cooking, and adores anything Italian. She loves doing research, particularly if it's hands-on and means experimenting with cooking. Reviewers say that her books are full of warmth, heart and charm - and also that you'll learn something new and interesting from them!
Kate also writes bestselling local history books under the name of Pamela Brooks.
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December 13, 2023
Natalie Wilkins & Kit Rodgers met at uni at 18, fell in love at first sight & married at 21. Their son Ethan was born 3 years later but died of a viral infection at 6 weeks old, just before Christmas. They were both devastated but Kit buried himself in his work as a junior doctor to escape the pain and, as a result, Natalie felt that he had abandoned her when she most needed him. She also thought (mistakenly) that Kit's family of high-flying doctors thought she wasn't quite good enough, a distraction from him achieving his full potential & that she'd been responsible for Ethan's accidental conception & death. Natalie filed for divorce & Kit, still numb with grief, moved to London & didn't contest it.
Kit switched from surgery to paediatrics & Natalie, a history teacher, retrained as a doctor, with plans to be a paediatrician. Both hope to prevent other families from suffering as they did. They've concentrated on their studies & work & not moved on from their grief. Neither has had a serious relationship since their divorce.
Six years on, they find themselves working together in a Birmingham hospital. Natalie is still angry with Kit, not accepting that he's changed, & he still loves her. The anniversary of Ethan's birth & death arrive & old hurts must be confronted.
This is a sensitively written, psychologically insightful story of second chances.
Kit switched from surgery to paediatrics & Natalie, a history teacher, retrained as a doctor, with plans to be a paediatrician. Both hope to prevent other families from suffering as they did. They've concentrated on their studies & work & not moved on from their grief. Neither has had a serious relationship since their divorce.
Six years on, they find themselves working together in a Birmingham hospital. Natalie is still angry with Kit, not accepting that he's changed, & he still loves her. The anniversary of Ethan's birth & death arrive & old hurts must be confronted.
This is a sensitively written, psychologically insightful story of second chances.
December 15, 2021
A good fast read with an interesting plot and characters.
September 20, 2013
Contemporary English Medical romance where a couple have to survive the death of their newborn son and can't handle it on their own so it ends in divorce and we start this second chances story six years later.
Natalie has changed a lot in six years, she has never dated anyone since the divorce, but she has completely changed her career choice and abandoned teaching for becoming a doctor. She is starting her first day as a doctor in the Pediatric department in a hospital near her home town. The day after Natalie's first day, it is Kit Rodger's first day in the new hospital and they are both very surprised because Kit ran off to London after the divorce. They are both still very traumatized by the death of their son, they have never moved on in to meaningful relationships or from their grief. So it comes to no surprise that they have a crazy moment of confrontation on the death anniversary of their son. They finally speak to each other and sort through why the relationship failed. This was an angst ridden sad story about grief and healing.
185 pages and bought used in a bundle of books
2 1/2 stars
Natalie has changed a lot in six years, she has never dated anyone since the divorce, but she has completely changed her career choice and abandoned teaching for becoming a doctor. She is starting her first day as a doctor in the Pediatric department in a hospital near her home town. The day after Natalie's first day, it is Kit Rodger's first day in the new hospital and they are both very surprised because Kit ran off to London after the divorce. They are both still very traumatized by the death of their son, they have never moved on in to meaningful relationships or from their grief. So it comes to no surprise that they have a crazy moment of confrontation on the death anniversary of their son. They finally speak to each other and sort through why the relationship failed. This was an angst ridden sad story about grief and healing.
185 pages and bought used in a bundle of books
2 1/2 stars
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