The Doctor and The Billionaire, Book One: Misled

By J.M. Cagle

Sweet Medicine, Book One: Misled

Karen Carver is a doctor who volunteers at a free clinic two days a week. The clinic is run by a local corporation, Gregory Industries. Its founder, Benton Gregory, was raised in the same neighborhood where the clinic is located. Karen, often frustrated by the lack of available budget at the clinic, agrees to help investigate missing medications when a man she believes to be Gregory Industries’ accountant asks for her assistance.

Karen, single for far too long, finds the accountant overwhelmingly attractive. When they meet again so she can report what she has discovered, she finds it difficult to concentrate on anything other than the dimple in his cheek. However, just as she is beginning to give in to the attraction she feels for him, she learns that he is not who she thinks he is. The accountant, it turns out, is actually Benton Gregory himself.

Karen was raised by a self-made man, a father with a quick temper. Karen has made it her goal not to be anything like her father. Therefore, when Benton asks her out to dinner in an effort to apologize for misleading her, she refuses. The last thing she wants is a man like her father in her life and that is exactly what Benton appears to be. It would be much easier to resist his constant advances, if he wasn't the most attractive man Karen has ever met.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Mulle
• Release date: Oct 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310893735

J.M. Cagle

J.M. Cagle began writing stories while in high school. She went on to attend California State University, Dominguez Hills and continued her pursuing her writing interests by interning at KTLA, a Los Angeles television station. She also became a sports writer for two community newspapers. She would attend sporting events and write articles on the games. Ms. Cagle also worked part-time at internationally acclaimed The Studios at Paramount where she garnered first-hand knowledge of the intricacies of television and film production. She has since gone on to write a multitude of screenplays and theatrical productions.Ms. Cagle’s focus is now centered on the writing genres of romance, paranormal and suspense novels. She also enjoys writing in the spiritual genre as well. When she isn’t engaged in her favorite pastime of writing she takes pleasure in singing, visiting the beach, bicycling, reading, walking and spending time with her loved ones. Ms. Cagle currently resides in Michigan where she continues to speak her heart through her writing.

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The Doctor and The Billionaire, Book One: Misled

By J.M. Cagle

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Other Books in The Doctor and The Billionaire Series

Book Two: Misunderstood

Book Three: Miscomputed

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

About J.M. Cagle

Other Books by This Author

Connect with J.M. Cagle

Chapter 1

Dr. Dee Walton stuck her head in Karen Carver’s office at the back of the Gregory Free Clinic, tapping on the doorframe to get her attention.

See you next week.

Hmm? Karen looked up from the stack of patient files she had been going through. Is it that late already?

Just after seven.

Dee stepped into the room, glancing around the tiny space at the stacks of files, medical samples, and empty coffee cups that littered the desktop and practically every other available space, including chairs, the windowsill, and the floor. We really have to find you a bigger office.

I have one, Karen said, her eyes back on the chart she had been reviewing. Across town.

I mean here, Dee said. If you’re going to spend every waking moment you aren’t working at your private practice volunteering here, the least we could do is get you a bigger office.

Karen just shook her head, not really listening. She was reading about a fourteen-year-old kid who was a frequent visitor here at the clinic. Twice a week just this month. And no one had caught the fact that she had stopped taking nearly half her daily insulin. A month.

She sat back and sighed, pushing the chart away from her. If you’re going to do anything, it should be looking for a GP who can tell the difference between the flu and ketoacidosis.

Not everyone can be as good as you. Dee shoved a collection of antibiotic bubble packs off a chair and perched carefully on the edge of it, as though she didn’t want to contaminate her designer jeans with whatever the last person to sit there might have left behind. Besides, the board voted not to increase our budget. Apparently they think we can do just fine on less than we spent last quarter, so we can’t afford another GP or anything else for that matter. If you weren’t a volunteer . . .

You’re joking, right? Karen stared at Dee, heat flushing her cheeks as the full impact of what Dee had said settled over her. We’re barely making do with what we have now.

Dee shrugged. I talked to Whitley myself. They won’t even discuss it.

Karen ran her fingers through her hair, frustration making her movement a little rougher than it should have been, her fingers catching on tangles the long day had created in her too-curly