NY Doc Under the Northern Lights
By Amy Ruttan
Contemporary Romance
Paperback & ebook, 256 Pages
October 1st 2018 by Harlequin Medical
Escaping the big city…
For love under Icelandic skies
When surgeon Betty Jacinth’s heart is broken once again, she takes a job in Iceland for a change of scenery. She expects cold weather—but not the frosty welcome she receives from gorgeous but brooding Dr. Axel Sturlusson! Now father to his orphaned niece, Axel gradually thaws, and a flame ignites—but when Betty’s ex begs her to return, can she make the right choice for love?
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Guest Post
Guest Post
Northern Lights—FUN FACTS!!
So, I’m obsessed with the Northern Lights. The first time I saw them I was about 13 years old and even though I knew that the northern lights existed, I still didn’t know what I was looking at when I saw them.
My Dad, who grew up in Northwester Ontario, had to tell me that it was the Aurora. I was hooked. I watched those lights all night until I fell asleep.
They were magnificent. Then I waited many, many, many more years before I got to see them again. This time, I was even further north. Almost to the 60th parallel. We were in High Level, Alberta and it was August. Now, if you’ve ever been north in the summer the northern lights are hard to spot because it’s day light for so much longer, but in August we’d passed the summer equinox, meaning the dark was returning.
And the night we were in High Level on our way to Fort Smith Northwest Territories was the first night they came back! My husband had never seen them, so he woke up and went outside and couldn’t figure out what the glow above the trees was. He woke me up. I bolted out of bed and dashed outside.
There they were. Again. I cried and confirmed that they were the northern lights. We tried to wake up the kids. My youngest, no way, he didn’t wake up. My middle child looked at them and said “Is that it?” And my daughter was amazed.
The next couple of nights we watched them in the Northwest Territories. Fort Smith is in Wood Buffalo National Park, which is Canada’s largest dark night reserve. AND because we were right on the 60th parallel at the time, instead of north we looked up.
So, I thought I would share some fun facts about my most favourite northern phenomenon.
- No two Aurora’s can ever be the same.
- Yellowknife is the top tourist destination in North American for aurora tourism.
- Colours depend on what gas is involved and elevation. Green lights, the most common, form at lower altitudes, while red forms at high altitudes.
- Auroras are more spectacular and frequent during high sun spot activity.
- In 1619 Galileo Galilei was the first to describe aurora activity, although there are cave paintings in France depicting lights from 30,000 years ago.
- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all have auroras.
- The name Aurora Borealis comes from the Greek goddess of Dawn known as Aurora and the Greek god Boreas who was the north wind and winter.
About the Author
Born and raised just outside of Toronto, Ontario, Amy fled the big city to settle down with the country boy of her dreams. After the birth of her second child, Amy was lucky enough to realize her life long dream of becoming a romance author. When she's not furiously typing away at her computer, she's a mom to three wonderful children who use her as a personal taxi and chef.
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1 winner will receive a swag bag from Romancing the Capital 2018. It’s full of awesome swag from the event plus 3 of Amy's books: NY Doc Under the Northern Lights, A Date with Dr Moustakas, and The Surgeon King’s Secret Baby
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