Ruark Thomas must not only attend to his duties as a doctor, but also to those as crown prince of Marestonia. With tensions escalating between Marestonia and neighboring island Avelogne, Ruark must take a wife from Avelogne to unite the two islands and create peace! E.R. doctor Gina is mesmerized by Ruark's fierce good looks, but she's speechless when he tells her they'll be married—only hours after they've met! And while Gina might be a convenient bride, Ruark makes it clear she will also be royally bedded!

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Adam Donnelly has arrived at the Penhally Bay practice hoping to see more of his childhood sweetheart, paramedic Maggie Pascoe. Adam knows he's got a lot of explaining to do if he wants Maggie for his bride, but before they can even hope to resolve their past, the present intervenes in a dramatic way.... Some children have tumbled into in an old Cornish mine, and in the rescue attempt Maggie has become trapped herself. The only one who can save her is the man who once broke her heart. Now Adam has a final chance, and only a few short hours, to show Maggie that he's always loved her more than any other.

Drawing upon a myriad of primary and secondary historical sources, The Royal Doctors: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patients during a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession. Over three hundred men (and a handful of women), heretofore unexamined as a group, made up the medical staff of the Tudor and Stuart kings and queens of England (as well as the Lord Protectorships of Oliver and Richard Cromwell). The royal doctors faced enormous challenges in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from diseases that respected no rank and threatened the very security of the realm. Moreover, they had to weather political and religious upheavals that led to regicide and revolution, as well as cope with sharp theoretical and jurisdictional divisions within English medicine. The rulers often interceded in medical controversies at the behest of their royal doctors, bringing sovereign authority to bear on the condition of medicine. Elizabeth Lane Furdell is Professor of History at the University of North Florida.

Dedicated vet Melinda Fortesque has a secret. One she's kept from gorgeous doctor Dragan Lovak even though she's given him her heart. Now duty is calling her, and she knows she must tell him the truth about who she really is. It's enough of a shock for Dragan to learn that the woman he trusted and fell in love with is royalty! And that HRH Melinda has been called back to her country to take the throne. But now he's learned that she's carrying his child! How can be possible let her go?

A renowned plastic surgeon and one of London's most eligible bachelors, Jack Tremayne lives the VIP life—he works hard and plays hard. But Jack's world is turned upside down when he learns that he is the single father of a three-year-old boy.... Jack returns to his Cornish hometown of Penhally Bay with little Freddie, where he finds his life inextricably tangled with that of single mom practice nurse Alison Myers—fiercely independent, she is determined not to fall for the gorgeous doctor's charm. Alison might just be the answer to Jack's prayers—she's fantastic with Freddie...and has captured Jack's heart! Soon he begins to wonder if family life might just suit him after all.

I really applaud your efforts. It s really diffi cult to do a book like that. - WAZIR Thanks again for your immense work, my family and I are indeed extremely grateful. - AZLAN Your effort in writing about the early Muslim doctors is very commendable and would be good for present and future generations to read about. - TAHIR You are doing valuable work by fi lling in the gaps in our history. I wish more of our retirees would impart their memories to repositories of knowledge such as the USM. - TAWFIK

In this book, acclaimed biographer Raymond Lamont-Brown casts light on a previously overlooked aspect of the monarchy. From the instigation of the royal doctor in medieval times, to the present day, the tales of secrets, murder, medical incompetence and revolutionary operations revealed in this book make compelling reading. This is a fascinating look at the relationship between monarchs and their doctors and reveals the complex and influential position that they held. Included here are Sir William Gull, court physician to Queen Victoria, who was a suspect in the Jack the Ripper case, and Sir Frederick Treves, who not only was court physician to the four succeeding monarchs, but was also the man who helped to rescue the 'Elephant Man', Joseph Merrick, from a fairground freak show.

From 1505 to 1689, Russia's tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. The realm's most beautiful young maidens—provided they hailed from the aristocracy—gathered in Moscow, where the tsar's trusted boyars reviewed their medical histories, evaluated their spiritual qualities, noted their physical appearances, and confirmed their virtue. Those who passed muster were presented to the tsar, who inspected the candidates one by one—usually without speaking to any of them—and chose one to be immediately escorted to the Kremlin to prepare for her wedding and new life as the tsar's consort. Alongside accounts of sordid boyar plots against brides, the multiple marriages of Ivan the Terrible, and the fascinating spectacle of the bride-show ritual, A Bride for the Tsar offers an analysis of the show's role in the complex politics of royal marriage in early modern Russia. Russell E. Martin argues that the nature of the rituals surrounding the selection of a bride for the tsar tells us much about the extent of his power, revealing it to be limited and collaborative, not autocratic. Extracting the bride-show from relative obscurity, Martin persuasively establishes it as an essential element of the tsarist political system.