Clara Langford writes love stories about people who are old enough to know better and do it anyway.

Her Mercy General series is set in Cedar Falls, a town of 4,287 people with a 92-bed hospital that runs on bake sales. The women in these books have grown children, long histories, and work that matters to them. The romances are warm, unhurried, and closed door.

She believes the second half of a life is not the epilogue to the first.