Falling for Her Off-Limits Boss by Luana DaRosa: Emma Santos is filling in as a sort of temporary anesthesiologist in a 
hospital in Chicago before going on to a fellowship elsewhere. She did not get a the true hospital residency she need when she let her boyfriend talk her into working and training with him in his private practice plastic surgery business. She finally extricated herself from that situation and she is looking forward to gettng more experience and going on with her training.
She finds she is working with Dr. Mark Henderson, a reknown oncology doctor and surgeon. He is extremely handsome on top of being an excellent doctor at the teaching hospital. She mistakenly believes he is married after overhearing him speaking with a patient’s husband. She later discovers he has been widowed for two years after losing his wife to cancer. Mark has felt guilty in many ways about his wife’s death. Emma doesn’t tell him right away that she lost her mother to the same type of cancer that is often passed genetically.
The two of them become close after being thrown together by work and time together. Will they be able to have a fling that will last the short time Emma is at the hospital and then move on?
This novel marks the debut of author Luana DaRosa. I loved how she included Emma’s past growing up in Brazil and how she came to study medicine in America. Emma is a very tenderhearted person in a career that needs a certain type of detachment to survive. She is able to do her best to balance things.
Mark is a brilliant doctor. He has laid a very heavy burden of guilt on himself. The author shows how this has impacted his life in a variety of ways.
I haven’t read a lot of Harlequin Medical Romances at this point, but have a little insight into the background since my late father was an anesthesiologist and my middle sister has been a nurse anesthetist for many years. The author portrays the medical part fairly accurately, for the most part, but a few points didn’t ring totally true. The most important being a doctor who worked hard to complete his/her residency wouldn’t want to be referred to by the title assigned to nurses in the field. Both do have to meet stiff requirements to even start training and after that you have to be the best of the best. I am still impressed by this new author’s talented storytelling and wish her all the best in the future.
Book Info:
Roberta Austin| 4 Stars | HJ Recommends | No |
Publication: February 22, 2022 | Harlequin Medical Romance |
In Luana DaRosa’s debut Harlequin Medical Romance, a doctor faces her greatest challenge yet: resisting her surgeon boss!
The flaw in her plan:
The surgeon she must resist! Walking into her new Chicago hospital, locum anesthesiologist Emma Santos is ready to take her career by storm. She’s spent too long neglecting her own goals for someone else. She’s not ready for widowed surgeon Mark Henderson. Her new boss is hard to please…and heart-stoppingly handsome! And that makes him a threat to both Emma’s medical ambitions—and her determination not to be ruled by attraction!
From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine.
