MIYAKO FUJIOMI

How can she love the man who would crush her greatest dream? Nurse Dervla is married to Gianfranco, an entrepreneur who rules the financial world and who has both an impressive pedigree and good looks. However, he won’t allow for love or children in their marriage. Dervla really wants to have his child, but it can never happen because she is barren. So when she finds out there may be a small chance she could get pregnant, she tells Gianfranco about the treatments. He, however, becomes angry, telling her she must not get pregnant! Is it because he doesn’t love her that he doesn’t want to have a child with her?

Nurse Lucy is shocked to find her former pediatrician lover, Connor, is going to be taking over the pediatric ward at the hospital she works at. He'd left her to move to America, so why would he come back now? When she finds out, Lucy can't help but be anxious. After they broke up, she became a single mother...and now Connor has returned to claim his place as Isabel's rightful father! She doesn't want to let her old flame near her daughter, and Lucy swears that she'll never give in to his demands. But Connor has other ideas...

When will he stop treating his wife like his little sister? Ever since she was young, Mattie has had a crush on James, her father’s business partner. But the eligible young bachelor, poised to marry a beautiful socialite, is always hounded by the media. Mattie believes that a plain girl like her is no match for him. One day, his engagement is suddenly called off. To evade the media, he stays at Mattie’s house during the Christmas holidays. He then proposes marriage to her. Is it an act to get back at his ex-fiancée? Or could it be something else?

Liv Winchester has a rough life,being both a single mother and a full-time nurse under the strict Dr. Stefano Lucarelli. Shamed and insulted by her ex-husband four years ago,she's lost all confidence in her body. When he disappeared from the scene altogether,she took on all costs of raising a child on her own. One night when her car won't start,Liv finds that Stefano might not be the man she fears,but one of the most kind and generous people she's ever met. Dashing through the snow,on a trip to Italy to meet his family,might lead her to be a sleigh-bell bride!

Ginny's life as a doctor is put on hold when she returns to her hometown, Cradle Lake, to care for her brother in his final days. It's there that she meets Fergus, a fellow doctor with a dark past. He's taken a job in the small, sleepy town to heal his old wounds. Drawn to the pain and suffering they see in each other's eyes, they eventually fall for one another. "Just one night, Fergus. Make me forget it all," begs Ginny as she opens her heart to him. She never imagined that one lone night would bring them all-new pain…

Part of Rawhide and Lace Series 1. Rawhide and Lace 2. Unlikely Lover