All through the hospital...magic was stirring
It might be Christmas, but Dr. Katie McGann would prefer to bury her head in her work than celebrate. Until her estranged husband Dr. Josh West strides into the ER, turning heads and making her heart flip.
Two years ago their world and their dreams ended, and they had to part. But Josh vowed never to stop fighting for his wife, and with the clock about to strike midnight he knows he has one last chance to heal Katie’s heart...one kiss under the mistletoe at a time.
Thank you so much for coming along to The Nightshift Before Christmas. I realise I have said this before—but this book really, really ate my heart alive when I was writing it. Josh and Katie were so real to me that my friends began to wonder if I actually knew them!
I don’t want to give anything away at this point, but the loss they have each suffered is something I can imagine might too easily define a person. Grief is a strange beast, and it can shape-shift even the strongest of people into someone even they don’t recognise themselves. Coming out of the fog of initial grief and back into ‘the world of the living’ is often overwhelming—especially if you don’t have the one you love most by your side.
This is such a journey. One in which the gorgeous Josh and the heartbreakingly wonderful Katie are just trying so hard to live again—despite all that has happened to them. I hope you are as swept away as I was as they quest for their HEA in a busy mountainside hospital in Copper Canyon. And at Christmas! I do love a good holiday story, don’t you? Just perfect for a little miracle of the L.O.V.E. variety.
Happy (Ever After) Holidays to you! And don’t be shy about getting in touch. I can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @AnnieONeilBooks.
Annie O’ Xx
The Nightshift Before Christmas
Annie O’Neil
ANNIE O’NEIL spent most of her childhood with her leg draped over the family rocking chair and a book in her hand. Novels, baking and writing too much teenage angst poetry ate up most of her youth. Now Annie splits her time between corralling her husband into helping her with their cows, baking, reading, barrel racing (not really!) and spending some very happy hours at her computer, writing.
Books by Annie O’Neil
Mills & Boon Medical Romance
The Monticello Baby Miracles
One Night, Twin Consequences
The Surgeon’s Christmas Wish
The Firefighter to Heal Her Heart
Doctor...to Duchess?
One Night...with Her Boss
London’s Most Eligible Doctor
Visit the Author Profile page at millsandboon.co.uk for more titles.
This one’s for my guy. You’re my Christmas, birthday and HEA all wrapped up into one handsome, blue-eyed Scottish package. Wifey xx
‘This is a beautifully written story that will pull you in from page one and keep you up late and turning the pages.’
—Goodreads on
Doctor...to Duchess?
Annie O’Neil won the 2016 RoNA Rose Award for her book Doctor...to Duchess?
Contents
“OKAY, PEOPLE! LISTEN UP, it’s the start of silly season!”
“I thought that was Halloween?”
“Or every full moon!”
“First snowfall?”
“Hey, Doc? Is that where your locum tenens is? Stuck in one of the drifts?”
“He won’t last long in Copper Canyon if that’s the case. A man needs snow tires.”
“A woman just needs common sense! I follow the snowplows! Got them tracked on my phone!”
Copper Canyon’s Emergency Department filled with laughter. Impressive, considering they were down to a quality but skeleton staff. Never mind the fact it was almost always one of the busiest weeks of the year. The town was full of holiday visitors and the ski resort up the hill always had an emergency or six their small clinic couldn’t handle.