Restarting thread
I'm restarting this thread because my WIP is shaping up (more than half finished with draft 1) and wanted to run a few things by folks.
It appears my WIP (working title, "Passion: STAT!") will fit perfectly into the Silhouette Desire line. (i.e., heroine is a tough nurse---with Army/Desert Storm experience, no less---who tames the successful-Type A-rich-and-powerful-SOB hero by seducing him and cutting him down to size on her own terms, all in 57,000 words or less.)
I've been researching this line and haven't found any medical plots in their recent titles. Most of them involve heroes who are CEOs, lawyers, cowboys, and other typical "tough guys", but not surgeons. Perhaps there are earlier titles with doctors/surgeons in this line that are out of print. Anyone read Silhouette Desire with any regularity? If so, would the following synopsis appeal to you?
Passion: STAT!
Joanna Watson, thirty-six, is a seasoned nurse in a small, cash-strapped North Carolina rural hospital. She may seem tough as nails on the outside, but on the inside she's coming apart at the seams---the hospital's so short-staffed she's been working nonstop double and triple shifts in the OR for months; she's deep in debt; and the divorce she's fought her meddling ex-husband three long years in court to secure is being held up due to a "technicality."
Enter Harlan Wilkinson, MD, Covington Community Hospital's new Chief of Surgery. For reasons nobody is quite sure of, this world-famous surgeon---a veteran of many glamorous overseas assignments with Doctors Without Borders---abandoned his high-paying, big-city surgeon's post to work in a small hospital in Statesville, North Carolina. Dr. Wilkinson is a rude, crude, obnoxious SOB both in and out of the operating room, and Covington Community Hospital's nurses are quitting their jobs right and left rather than put up with any more of his nasty verbal abuse. Joanna thinks she sees through the cracks of his brash exterior to the wounded, gentle man within----but can she tame him before he drives her mad?