Patience knew she couldn’t be more different from the sort of women Dutch surgeon Julius van der Beek seemed to attract.
After all, she was a quiet country girl with a somewhat unique taste in clothes—and an assertive personality to match! Yet she was attracted to him. Not that she had any hope of him noticing her, particularly with the glamorous Sylvia van Teule already at his side.…
When the distinguished doctor leased her family’s old Norfolk home to write a reference book, she gladly accepted the post of general factotum to keep household disruptions at bay. Running errands between the butcher and the greenhouse left little time for daydreaming, even if her new employer was generous with his wages. Deciphering his untidy handwriting on the typewriter soon made her indispensable, and when a family emergency arose in London, she gamely agreed to care for his lively young niece.
Clean Romance: Settle into a gentle, heartwarming love story set between the quiet lanes of rural Norfolk and the historic canals of Holland.Opposites Attract: Finds herself matching wits with a formidable consulting surgeon.Slow Burn: From snowbound evenings keeping up the kitchen Aga to unexpected visits, mutual respect quietly deepens into genuine devotion.Also by This Author: Damsel in Green, Visiting Consultant and The Course of True Love.
