This story is a real heart breaker at first. Jayne lost her twin sister and in trying to cope brook off her engagement to Sam and moved to London in order to find herself and try to live the life her sister should have led while grieving and blaming herself for her sisters death. I was really happy when she found her happily ever after with Sam and getting over her guilt and pain.

Survivor guilt can often change lives and no more so, it seems, than when the survivor is a twin sister. Jayne felt responsible for her twin’s death and so she broke after engagement and changed her medical speciality in an effort to make it up to her parents.
This endearing romance, set in a rural medical practice, is a very easy summer’s day read.

A reunion romance is at the hart of this enjoyable medical tale. A lovely story, beautifully written.

Thank you to Mills & Boon Insiders and to Netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

An emotionally straining, love lost, love rekindled, love saved, romance.

All mixed with loss, grief, living with this, learning from this, attaining great career success, but realising that in the end it is nothing without the love you left behind in your past.

With a happy ever after ending.

Return, A Reunion, A Wedding, is written by Annie O’Neil and published by Mills & Boon Medical. This is a second chance at love story. Jayne is a heart transplant surgeon who has been working in busy London hospital whilst her ex fiancé and GP, Sam has been working with his grandfather (also a GP), in an Oxfordshire village. Jayne broke Sam’s heart after she called off their wedding after her sister was killed in an accident. Jayne returns to the village after one of her patients dies to help care for Maggie who is suffering from pre eclampsia. Sam’s grandfather has broken his wrist, so Sam offers Jayne a temporary job. Slowly they fall back in love, but will Sam learn to trust Jayne again and will Jayne be able to forgive herself for her sister’s death?


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Having just devoured this heartfelt second-chance romance in one sitting, Annie O’Neil once again hits the spot.

“They had a past. A complicated one. But they could have a future.”

When surgeon Jayne returns to her hometown needing a break from her job in a busy city hospital, it quickly becomes evident that the love once shared between herself and her former fiancé and village GP, Sam has not entirely been lost.

“We’re not the same happy-go-lucky kids we were way back then.”

With a wonderful cast of characters, forgiveness, friendship, laying old hurts to rest and new beginnings are at the very heart of this lovely story between a couple who deserve to finally find their happy ever after.

Jayne blames herself for her sisters death, she decided that she would follow her sisters dreams to live their life to the full as much as she could. Thing is that is her sisters dream and not hers so when one of her patients dies following a heart transplant she had performed she decides she needs to get out of London and goes back to her home town near Oxford. She will be looking after her friend, Maggie, who is suffering from the start of pre eclampsia and needs full bed rest, her friend is the social centre and organiser of the village so as you can imagine she isn't happy to have to stop!

The GP for the village is Sam, Jayne was his fiancé until the accident that killed her sister, and she broke his heart when she left but now she is back. When Sam's grandad, the villages other GP, breaks his wrist and twists his ankle he isn't able to work for a few weeks so Jayne offers to assist but Sam is wary, can she be trusted or will she just run off again?

Sam and Jayne both still have very strong feelings for each other, but can Jayne forgive herself for her sisters death and move on or will it tear them apart again? Can Sam trust Jayne to stay around or will she leave again? Can either of them risk their hearts?

Based around a small village community I did enjoy this book, I could see a lot of the people mentioned, having grown up with their equivalent!

Jayne is a good friend to Maggie and looks after her the best she can, even looping in her colleagues from London to get as much information as possible to provide better care. She is also a good doctor who takes time to listen to patients and explain what is happening with respect but also comfort. I also found her incredibly self centred and a lot of her narrative was me, me, me, interspaced with oh what strong feelings I still have for Sam

Sam is a character who I respected as a doctor but who, like Jayne, was absorbed in the past and what had happened between them. He hadn't gotten any closure, even though he thought he had so his narrative is also focused around his feelings for Jayne

Their obsession with their past made it harder for me to connect with the characters as it felt that they were a bit winey some of the time. I'm not sure if this is linked to my own feelings at the moment so this may be clouding my views and causing them to annoy me more than they otherwise might have. This also tells me that there is definitely a book out there by Annie O'Neil that is my dream book as I really enjoyed her writing style and all the characters around Sam and Jayne were perfectly created and came through as people

I would recommend this book to those who live or have lived in a small community, or know that community spirit, but who also know they have their forever person out their if they haven't already met them!

Jayne has driven herself to become the best paediatric Cardiologist but when a operation goes wrong Jayne finds herself being pulled back into the memories of her past. Jayne had been happily engaged to Sam with big dreams of becoming the local village GP's but then one moment changed everything and Jayne blames herself for her sister's sudden death, after breaking up with Sam she set off to achieve her sisters dreams of becoming a cardiologist. Now with the memories returning Jayne decides to move back home to begin to heal.
As soon as Jayne and Sam see each other again she realises that the spark is still there but can they overcome their past to get the future they deserve?
This is a lovely heartwarming book with characters that you really root for!

This story is driven by powerful emotions, grief, guilt and love. It is a second chance romance, my favourite kind, between two medics, whose fairytale ending was obliterated by a tragic accident.

The story begins with an intense medical drama, that reveals that Jayne is finally unable to run from her past. It should be the pinnacle of her career, so far, but rather than success, it forces her to confront her past, and what she believes is her failure.

Sam never really came to terms with Jayne’s ending of their engagement, he understood her grief, but not her wish to face it alone. The meeting between Sam and Jayne sets the scene for an awkward few weeks, as they recognise their mutual attraction still lives, but are not sure what if anything they can do about it.

There is plenty of authentic medical details, and an exceptionally poignant love story, which is fraught with internal conflict. Both of the main protagonists are likeable and relatable, the best friend Maggie and the villagers all give the story its authenticity, a snapshot of English village life.

An intensely emotional medical romance with a lovely hopeful happy ending.

I received a copy of this book from Mills and Boon via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

So this my 1st review for mills and boon insiders

The last medical romance I read from mills and boon was back in 2005 so this is my 1st medical romance I have read for a long time so here’s goes

No spoilers but this story is a second chance romance with the heroine who carries the guilt of her sisters death so much that she calls off the engagement to the hero and goes to become a surgeon (driven by her sisters death) she goes back to her childhood town to look after her best friend and the hero is the Gp, old feelings resurfaced for both hero and heroine, especially when the heroine helps in the surgery

This book has the emotional impact, where feelings are expressed and you feel that the hero and heroine never stopped loving each other and you as the reader follow that journey with them and I love the way author wrote this

Would I recommend the book yes definitely if you love the emotional, heartwarming, second chance romance,with lots of feelings involved,set with the medical background by the way the author got spot on with the medical stuff ( I used to work in the Nhs),

And if you want to try a medical romance for the 1st time or like me has not read one for a long time then try this story as a start to medical romance as I really enjoyed this story so much
I give this book 5⭐️