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She is the ground the whole town stands on. Nobody ever thought to ask who holds her up.
For sixteen years, Linda Okafor has run Mercy General the way you run a thing you love and cannot say so out loud. She knows every sound the building makes at night, every dollar the county quietly forgives, every donor’s name on every brass plate. When Mercy...

Dr. Caroline Shaw left Cedar Falls twenty-seven years ago and never planned to work another shift at Mercy General. Then a colleague needs coverage, an ice storm closes half the roads into town, and Caroline finds herself back in navy scrubs on the worst night of the year.

The first ambulance call of her shift brings in a man having a heart...

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...