The Doctor's Date

by Heidi Cullinan

Overview

Dr. Owen “the Ogre” Gagnon is infamous for his hospital hallway fights with human resources director Erin Andreas, so everyone is shocked when Erin bids an obscene amount of money to win a date with Owen in the hospital bachelor auction. When Owen ups the ante by demanding Erin move in with him, everyone in Copper Point wants to know what’s going on. All Erin wants is for Owen to distract his overbearing father while he handles a delicate internal investigation, but struggles with his father bring up shadows from Owen’s past and send him into an overprotective frenzy. Owen wants to be the hero Erin has never had in his life, but to his frustration, Erin has no interest in being saved. Somewhere along the line, this fake relationship has become real, but they can’t have a happy ever after until they put their respective demons to rest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781641080668
Publisher:	Dreamspinner Press
Publication date:	06/18/2019
Series:	Copper Point Medical Series , #2
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Author of over thirty novels, Midwest-native Heidi Cullinan writes positive-outcome romances for LGBT characters struggling against insurmountable odds because she believes there’s no such thing as too much happy ever after. Heidi is a two-time RITA® finalist, and her books have been recommended by Library Journal, USA Today, RT Magazine, and Publishers Weekly. When Heidi isn’t writing, she enjoys cooking, reading novels and manga, playing with her cats, and watching too much anime.

Visit Heidi’s website at www.heidicullinan.com.

You can contact her at [e-mail].

Editorial Reviews

★ 04/08/2019

Cullinan returns to Copper Point, Wis., for this heart-rending sequel to The Doctor’s Secret, featuring another romance between colleagues at a small-town hospital. Although anesthesiologist Owen Gagnon and hospital HR director Erin Andreas frequently spar at work, Erin hides a secret: he has harbored a crush on Owen since they were teenagers. When he bids $25,000 for Owen at a bachelor’s auction to raise funds for a new cardiac ward, Owen thinks it’s just a ploy to upset Erin’s controlling, conservative father, who heads the hospital board of directors. But once Owen gets to know Erin, giving him his first kiss —and getting him to move out of his father’s house and into Owen’s—the men shift from being pretend boyfriends to real lovers. Each one helps the other cope with past trauma and abuse (described sufficiently to feel real, but never in gratuitous or titillating detail), and they build their relationship in a truly romantic way, listening to and protecting each other. Owen’s massage skills, his patience with Erin’s sexual inexperience and nervousness, and a grand gesture during a belated Valentine’s date make this contemporary swoon-inducing. Cullinan stretches out the story with a lengthy subplot about hospital funds being embezzled, which gives the characters another way to bond, but the story’s magic is in how their affection for each other helps them individually achieve self-confidence and self-love. This tear-jerker is a captivating winner. (June)

Publishers Weekly

"This tear-jerker is a captivating winner." —Publishers Weekly

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