Book excerpt: Dedicated E.R. registrar Ellie Saunders has put her troubled youth behind her and now fronts a medical TV show. Yet her fresh start is threatened by the arrival of a ghost from her past: E.R. consultant James Birchenall--Ellie's new boss. His titled family was responsible for the disintegration of hers, and Ellie still bears the scars. But when scandalous headlines break, revealing her past, this sinfully handsome aristocratic playboy is the only man she can turn to.