The Best Medicine

By Janet Lane Walters

1993

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14H34M

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To Love Again

Series · 53 books

By Ruby MacDonald, Jennifer Gage, Martha Schroeder, and more

Now that she's single again, Maggie Carr has a chance to make her own choices—where she'll live, what she'll do, who her friends will be. Best of all, she can go back to the nursing career she enjoyed so much. It's exciting to start all over again. And scary, too. There's a lot of catching up to do, and the night shift at the hospital is a real challenge. It's harder still not to be distracted by the way Dr. Jason Knight soothes his patients...hard not to imagine his strong tender hands touching her. What is she thinking of? Then Jason's estranged daughter comes home, needing help and medical attention, and it's Maggie who lends a hand Suddenly Jason and Maggie are much more than just colleagues. Even though the obstacles to romance seem insurmountable, Maggie knows in her heart that this is what being a woman is all about. It's her turn now—hers and Jason's—to love again!

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Janet Lane Walters

Author · 9 books

"I am a nurse who's been spinning tales for years, especially when many of the people whose stories I tell are involved in the medical profession. Since dark nights on the front porch of the house where I lived and in the garage where my friends put on the plays I wrote, I've been a story-teller. That was my beginning and there were other steps along the way. Take third grade and my book report. I choose "Anna Karenina" and ended the book with these words; "She loved him so she threw herself under a train. There are a lot of things she could have done other than that dumb thing." After telling me I couldn't read that book, my teacher informed me I couldn't change the ending. My next experience with the world of critiquing came during my pursuit of a career as a nurse. I wrote a care study of a little boy I'd come to love. My instructor told me this was a scientific study and I should not have included emotional elements. After graduating, I married. My husband, a doctor, and I ended up in a small town where the Public Health service had a hospital. In the town was a small library. Within two months, I'd read every book and needed something to do. For Christmas, my husband bought me a typewriter and a ream of paper. Faced with a blank page, I began to write, badly at first. My first attempts were short stories, many published. Then I received a rejection that says this sounds like a synopsis of a novel. Once again, I learned. Three books and four children later, I returned to nursing to send those children to college. Once that was accomplished, I returned to exploring the world where I can change the ending, put in emotional elements and write the things I'd like to read."