DIANNE DRAKE

"...an author to watch."
                                                  - Romantic Times

Hello, and welcome to my website!

Thank-you for stopping by to take a look at what's going on in my writing world. As you'll see when you browse my pages, most everything that's going on is medically-inclined. Or, as my publisher puts it, "Pulse-raising romance, heart-racing medical drama."

I'll have three medical romances out for you this year. And, in case you don't recall seeing these Harlequin Mills and Boon books on the shelves in your favorite bookstore, that's because you may not have. The medical romances are first released in the United Kingdom, and on the book shelves there. Two months later, they're released in the United States, but on the Harlequin website only. Somewhere in that timeline they also go to France, Australia and several other countries where medical romance is a passion.

So, what makes these books so different? Well, the passion, the drama and the romance you have come to expect from Harlequin over the years are all there. But, there is a little added bonus because Harlequin Mills and Boon Medicals always have a medical story going on, filled with doctors, nurses, paramedics and all the other medical practitioners who make life better. And somewhere along the way, you can bet there will be a medical situation or two - an emergency during an Alaskan avalanche, a rescue along the road, or a quiet moment at a sick child's bedside.

When I was a child I loved to read stories involving doctors and nurses. I still do. And now, I love to write them!

Please feel free to spend a few minutes browsing my website. And, by all means, I'd love to hear from you!

Wishing you health & happiness!

Two and two make one very special family...

For renowned plastic surgeon and single mother Caprice Bonaventura, her volunteer work with children is a lifeline. Spending all her free time with her young patients and daughter means she has no chance to admit she might be missing out on other areas of life...

Then she meets the handsome and caring Dr. Adrian McCallan, with whom she shares the experience of being a single parent. Adrian sets her senses alight in a way no man has before. Though breaking down his emotional barriers means putting her heart on the line, Caprice knows it will be worth the risk!

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Coming soon from Harlequin Mills and Boon Medicals:

ITALIAN DOCTOR, FULL-TIME FATHER
August, 2008

He's a surgeon-turned-internationally renowned race car driver who loves the thrill of the fast life. She's the rehabilitation specialist charged with helping him heal after a mishap on the racetrack, and she knows, first hand, the devastating effects of living the fast life. But there's one little boy in the balance who needs a normal family. Come see how Doctors Catherine Brannon and Dante Baldassare put aside their differences to find the life they all need.

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A BOSS BEYOND COMPARE
October, 2008

Doctor Grant Makela has the perfect life, working in a little Hawaiian medical clinic on the north shore of paradise. It's where he practices a different kind of medicine - more relaxed, more personal, and it's everything he's ever wanted. As he's preparing to buy the clinic from its owner, the owner dies unexpectedly. Now the clinic is about to be taken over by a large, impersonal medical corporation owned, in part, by Doctor Susan Cantwell. She's come to Hawaii to take charge, to make sure her investment is run by the rules, but the only taking that's done is by Grant, and it has nothing to do with the clinic. Grant takes Susan's heart at first sight, but the problem is, she's the one who's set to destroy his heart and the life he loves. Can the corporate doctor with all the rules and the island doctor who hates the rules find a compromise that will give them everything they've both dreamed of?

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THE WIFE HE'S WAITED FOR
January, 2009
Doctor Sarah Collins is running away...from her life, her medical practice, from everything that reminds her of the past. After the tragic death of her husband, and the near-death of a fiancee after him, and the subsequent breakup of that relationship, she's emotionally burnt out, not sure what she wants to do. So she sells her share of the medical practice and goes on vacation...for a year. She needs time to think, to heal. This time though, she's on a cruise ship and not sure if she wants to be confined for two weeks. But after she literally collapses in the arms of Doctor Michael Sloan, the ship's doctor, she decides that a little sailing on the high seas might not be such a bad idea after all. Except Michael is running away, too. His traumatic experience as a battlefield surgeon has caused him to re-think his life, and he's doing that on board a ship. Can two people without clear direction in their lives find their direction in each other and set sail together?

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