Dear Reader
When I was asked to kick off the latest round of Penhally stories I was delighted—not least because it meant working again with two of my favourite authors, Kate Hardy and Margaret McDonagh, and ‘meeting’ Anne Fraser, who is relatively new to Medical™ Romance. We all worked together really closely on this little collection, because not only were there the interlinking stories in these four books, but also the whole existing infrastructure of Penhally Bay and St Piran, which had over the last year or so become entirely real to those of us involved. It was a chance to revisit old friends, to bring in new ones and to spend more time (sadly only in my head!) in a place I’ve grown to love.
It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to work with people I’ve come to call friends, and a chance to write a really involving and emotionally challenging story. Both Sam and Gemma have suffered life-changing challenges. One drove them apart; the other has brought them back together. But can they really forgive and forget? This is the story of their journey, and I hope you get as much pleasure from reading it as I had writing it. I give it to you with my love and best wishes.
If you’re revisiting Penhally, welcome back, and if this is your first trip, I hope you’ll love being here as much as I do.
Caroline
Caroline Anderson has the mind of a butterfly. She’s been a nurse, a secretary, a teacher, run her own soft-furnishing business, and now she’s settled on writing. She says, ‘I was looking for that elusive something. I finally realised it was variety, and now I have it in abundance. Every book brings new horizons and new friends, and in between books I have learned to be a juggler. My teacher husband John and I have two beautiful and talented daughters, Sarah and Hannah, umpteen pets, and several acres of Suffolk that nature tries to reclaim every time we turn our backs!’ Caroline also writes for the Mills & Boon® Romance series.
Recent titles by the same author:
Medical™ Romance
THE VALTIERI MARRIAGE DEAL
A MUMMY FOR CHRISTMAS
THEIR MIRACLE BABY* CHRISTMAS EVE BABY*
Mills & Boon® Romance
TWO LITTLE MIRACLES
THE SINGLE MUM AND THE TYCOON
HIS PREGNANT HOUSEKEEPER
* Brides of Penhally Bay
THE REBEL OF PENHALLY BAY
BY
CAROLINE ANDERSON
MILLS & BOON
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For Clare, who has walked this road, for Dan and the children, who’ve held her hand along the way, and for the countless others who walk it with her. Safe journey.
BRIDES OF PENHALLY BAY
Bachelor doctors become husbands and fathers—
in a place where hearts are made whole.
Look out for these four books set in the picturesque town of Penhally, nestled on the rugged Cornish coast.
This month we’re back in Penhally as bad-boy doc Sam Cavendish tries to win back his long-lost wife… The Rebel of Penhally Bay by Caroline Anderson
Next month midwife Annie meets gorgeous Spanish doctor Dr Raphael Castillo, and one magical night leads to one little miracle… Spanish Doctor, Pregnant Midwife by Anne Fraser
In December there’s a real treat in store as gorgeous high-flying heart surgeon James arrives in Penhally! Falling for the Playboy Millionaire by Kate Hardy
And in January there’s a new GP in town when Italian doctor and single father Luca d’Azzaro brings his twin babies to Penhally A Mother for the Italian’s Twins by Margaret McDonagh
Welcome back to Penhally Bay!
Mills & Boon® Medical™ Romance welcomes you back to the picturesque town of Penhally, nestled on the rugged Cornish coast! With sandy beaches and breathtaking landscapes Penhally is a warm, bustling community, cared for by the Penhally Bay Surgery team, led by the distinguished and commanding Dr Nick Tremayne.
We’re bringing you four new books set in
this idyllic coastal town, where fishing boats
bob up and down in the bay, friendly faces line
the cobbled streets and romance flutters on
the Cornish sea breeze! We’ve got gorgeous
Mediterranean heroes, top-notch city surgeons,
and the return of Penhally’s very own
bad-boy rebel! But that’s not all…
We step back into the life of enigmatic,
guarded hero Dr Nick Tremayne, and
nurse Kate Althorpe—the one woman who
has stolen Nick’s heart and the only woman
he won’t allow himself to love! Dr Nick’s
unquestionable professional skill and dedication
to the Penhally Bay Surgery hide his private
pain—his is a story that will pierce your heart.
So turn the page and meet them for yourself…
And if you’ve never visited Penhally before, step right in and enjoy Medical™ Romance’s most popular miniseries. There is a world of romantic treats awaiting you.
PROLOGUE
HE WASN’T concentrating.
If he’d been concentrating, he might have seen it, but he wasn’t. He was miles away, in Cornwall, thanks to his mother and the letter he’d just been handed on his way out of the hospital.
It was all the usual blah.
Hope you’re well, Jamie’s done well in his exams, goodness knows how, he’s so idle, who does that remind you of? Oh, well, if he turns out as well as you he’ll be all right but why you want