The Best Medicine — Elizabeth Neff Walker

LOVE IN THE SHADOW OF LOSS

In San Francisco's prestigious Fielding Medical Center, Dr. Roger Janek was known as a brilliant, dedicated specialist in the operating room. But in his private life, he was locked in mourning for his beautiful wife, Kerri, who had died of a tragic illness.

One of the nurses by Kerri's bedside had been, lovely, deeply caring Judy Povalski. Judy's heart went out to the doctor's grief, but she tried not to let herself feel more for him. Judy had been betrayed by a doctor once, and vowed never to risk that pain a second time.

But a doctor who thought he could never want another woman ...and a nurse who turned her back on romance as she gave herself to her profession ...were both tinder for passion's fire. Neither could deny the feelings that grew out of daily contact with each other--and they were forced to decide if they could leave their pasts behind and build a future together....