Sable: Always A Bridesmaid Book 12
by Peggy Jaeger
Book Blurb:
ALWAYS BEING A BRIDESMAID IS GETTING OLD...Pediatrician Sable Miller is sick and tired of being the go-to, dependable bridesmaid in all her family and friends’ weddings. But her demanding job, the ridiculous hours, and endless family commitments keep her from finding the perfect man. A matchmaking service? Sounds like too much work. Swipe right dating? Not her thing. The bar scene? When was the last time she even had an evening free to go to a bar?
And forget about dating the myriad of on-the-make doctors and residents in her hospital. Besides, workplace romances never work out.
Sable’s options to meet the man of her dreams and start a family are dwindling and time is running out, because she promised herself the next wedding she would attend would be her own.
Kristopher Lee, the Physician’s Assistant assigned to Sable has a crush on his new mentor. But she’s got a hands-off rule when it comes to dating someone she works with. Kris is nothing if not persistent, though. After all, he didn’t survive two tours in the Army without focusing on a goal. And making Sable Miller fall in love with him is his best goal yet.
Excerpt:
Twice in her career, Sable had given in to temptation and dated someone she worked with. Once had been when she was a pediatric resident, he a staff physician. They’d been having a lovely time together, despite their busy work hours. He’d told Sable he was divorced. When his wife – the one he was definitely not divorced from – showed up in the restaurant they were having dinner in one night and caused a major public scene, Sable learned the truth and put an immediate end to the relationship.She learned a valuable lesson from that situation. Namely: fact check.
Her second work relationship – if you could even call it that – had been with a lab tech. This time she made sure he wasn’t married before agreeing to have drinks with him. After three dates he invited her back to his apartment because he wanted to show her the experiment he was conducting for his Master’s degree in biotech. When he told her she was a perfect candidate to be included in the research, Sable’s Spidey-senses went into hyper-drive. When he said he would need to draw a sample of her blood and get a few locks of her hair, she begged off. She then blocked his number from her phone. Whenever she spotted him in the hospital hallways or the cafeteria, she did a one-eighty and speed-walked in the opposite direction.
No. Dating someone from work never worked out, and no matter how good-looking or charming or intelligent this new guy was – she wasn’t interested.
Sable tossed the nurse another headshake. A quick glance at the patient board above the nurse’s station told her she had no patients other than the broken ankle kid to see to at the moment. While she waited for the orthopedic resident to cast the kid’s limb, she decided to make a quick cup of tea. The break room was, thankfully, empty. With her cup of much-needed caffeine to get her through the night shift, Sable went back out to the station.
She spotted Gale talking with a guy in a scrub suit. From the back, the description she’d been given of the new Physician’s Assistant drifted into her mind. This guy had short black hair, wide shoulders tapering down into a trim waist/hip area and his scrub top looked as if it had been sewn onto him.
Obviously, this was the man of the hour.
Gale caught Sable’s eye and grinned.
“Here she is now,” she said, ticking her chin toward Sable. “Let me introduce you.”
With an internal groan, Sable placed her most benign, polite smile – the one her brother Chance called cold with a hint of frosty – on her face, and moved toward the duo.
Swiping her hand across her lab coat, she prepared to give him a professional handshake when she stopped dead in her tracks as he turned around.
No. No. It couldn’t be.
It just…couldn’t.
“This is our favorite pediatrician,” Gale said, “Dr. Sable Miller. Doc, this is—”
“Kristopher Lee,” Sable whispered as all the air left her lungs.
“Here she is now,” she said, ticking her chin toward Sable. “Let me introduce you.”
With an internal groan, Sable placed her most benign, polite smile – the one her brother Chance called cold with a hint of frosty – on her face, and moved toward the duo.
Swiping her hand across her lab coat, she prepared to give him a professional handshake when she stopped dead in her tracks as he turned around.
No. No. It couldn’t be.
It just…couldn’t.
“This is our favorite pediatrician,” Gale said, “Dr. Sable Miller. Doc, this is—”
“Kristopher Lee,” Sable whispered as all the air left her lungs.
Author Bio:
Family and food play huge roles in Peggy’s stories because she believes there is nothing that holds a family structure together like sharing a meal…or two…or ten. Dotted with humor and characters that are as real as they are loving, Peggy brings all aspects of life into her stories: life, death, sibling rivalry, illness, and the desire for everyone to find their own happily ever after. Growing up the only child of divorced parents she longed for sisters, brothers and a family that vowed to stick together no matter what came their way. Through her books, she has created the families she wanted as that lonely child.
As a lifelong diarist, she caught the blogging bug early on, and you can visit her at peggyjaeger.com where she blogs daily about life, writing, and stuff that makes her go "What??!"
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2 comments:
thank you so much for spotlighting SABLE on release day!!! I hope your readers enjoy learning about her and the entire ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID series. ~ Peg
Good luck with your new release, Peggy.
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