© 2006

Dear Reader,

After more than twenty-five years, Silhouette Romance^® is leaving the shelves, and next month will be the last month of publication. However, we are thrilled to announce that the authors you know and love-whose stories have made you laugh and cry-have a new home at Harlequin Romance^®!

Each month Harlequin Romance will be on the shelves with six new titles. You’ll find your favorite authors from Silhouette Romance, and some exciting new names, too! Most importantly, Harlequin Romance will be offering the kinds of stories you love-and more! From royalty to ranchers, bumps to babies, big cities to exotic desert kingdoms, these are emotional and uplifting stories from the heart, for the heart!

So make a date with Harlequin Romance-we promise it will be the most romantic date you’ll make!

Happy reading!

Kimberley Young

Senior Editor

HE MADE the decision at two in the morning. There’d been no serious car crashes in the last few hours. No appendices or aneurisms, no ruptures, assaults or dramas. Night shift at City Central was deathly quiet.

He wanted it to be more so. No less than four nurses and one intern had used the lull to ask him how he was coping. ‘No, really, Dr Reynard, if you’d like to talk about it…’

He didn’t. He glowered at everyone who came close, he settled himself in the staff lounge, and he concentrated on his reading. Specifically, he concentrated on reading the ‘Appointments Vacant’ in this month’s medical journal.

‘Where’s Dimboola?’

‘My aunty lives in Dimboola,’ one of the theatre nurses ventured. ‘It’s in North West Victoria. Aunty Liz says it’s a great little town.’