NOVEMBER, 2018
TIME FOR THE DOCTOR
By: Linda O’Connor
The Plot:
Come visit Copper Mills, Arizona—a small
town with a heart as big as the wide-open
spaces and a history of making dreams come
true.
Dr. Tash Bannon, the only internist
at Copper Mills General Hospital, is a
workaholic. After a couple of patient
complaints, the board of directors real-
izes Tash needs a break and “suggests”
he take a three-month vacation.
Dr. Melissa Sinclair is a single
mom, and her adopted son comes first
in her life. She‟s used to the hustle of a big city hospital but
takes the job to cover for Tash, hoping to expose her son to
his Hopi ancestry during their time in Copper Mills.
Tash resents having to take time off—and has an even
harder time staying away now that Melissa is around. Now he
just has to decide which is more important: his job or Melissa?
An Excerpt
She stepped back and eyed the desk. If it was angled slightly,
she‟d be able to sit and face the door and have a better view out
the window. She tugged on it, and it slid fairly easily.
“Making yourself at home?”
Melissa straightened with a start at the sardonic question.
There were rules about opening the windows, but no one had
said anything about rearranging the furniture. She didn‟t need to
feel guilty, did she? She turned toward the voice and then
stopped and stared.
Where have you been all my life? He shared the tan skin, black
hair, and square jawline of many of the Hopi people who‟d wel-
comed her over the past two days. But he was tall and lean—and
those eyes. She‟d never seen that shade of blue, somewhere be-
tween the azure of the sky on a clear summer day and a deep,
dark shade of sapphire. There’s a lineage that should never be stopped.
“Hello. I hope I‟m not out of line,” she said, rolling the high-
backed office chair behind the desk and out of the way. “I just
thought the view outside the window was too spectacular not to
enjoy.”
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Price: $2.99
Length: 143 Pages
Heat Level: PG-13
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Biography:
Award-winning author Linda O‟Connor started writing a few years ago when she needed a creative outlet
other than subtly rearranging the displays at the local home decor store. It turns out she loves writing romantic
comedies and has a few more stories to tell. When not writing, she‟s a physician at an urgent care clinic (well,
even when she is writing she‟s a physician, and it shows up in her stories :D). She hangs out at http://
www.lindaoconnor.net.
Laugh every day. Love every minute.
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