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Patience, a quiet country girl with a distinctive sense of style and an assertive personality, finds herself drawn to Julius van der Beek, a Dutch surgeon who is typically attracted to more glamorous women. Despite the obvious differences—Patience’s down‑to‑earth background versus Julius’s cosmopolitan surgical world—she cannot help but be intrigued by him, even though he already has a glamorous patient, Sylvia van Teule, nearby.
First publish date: 1992
Genre: Romance/Contemporary Romance
Authors: Betty Neels
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