She came to a small town to disappear. The one thing that could save it would mean letting everyone see exactly who she is.
Dr. Rachel Kim chose Mercy General for one reason: nobody in Cedar Falls knows what happened at her last hospital. A bare house out past the streetlights, a job below her training, a wall around everything that matters....

For twenty-five years, Olivia Bennett has been the person everyone leans on. Head nurse at Mercy General. The one who runs the floor, holds the family’s hand, stays past the end of her shift. She married at twenty-two, raised two children mostly alone, and somewhere along the way forgot to ask what she wanted. Then she spends twelve days in...

A grown-up small-town romance for readers who have lived long enough to know what they want — and what they don’t.

Emergency-room physician Emily Carter is forty-seven and running. After a patient she didn’t save — and a Boston review board that almost ended her career — she takes a quiet job at Mercy General, an underfunded hospital in a town...