Debbie Macomber Navy Series Box Set. Debbie Macomber

examination table, holding a thin piece of tissue over her lap. The doctor would be in any minute to give her the news she’d been waiting to hear for the past month. Okay, so her period was two weeks late. There could be any number of reasons. For one thing, she’d been under a good deal of stress lately. For another …

      Her thoughts came to a grinding halt as Dr. Stewart stepped into the room. His glasses were perched on the end of his nose and his brow compressed as he read over her chart.

      “Well?” she asked, unable to disguise the trembling eagerness in her voice.

      “Congratulations, Carol,” he said, looking up with a grandfatherly smile. “You’re going to be a mother.”