The Mercy General Series

The Mercy General Series is a five-book contemporary romance series for women in midlife, set in and around an underfunded small-town hospital that is fighting to stay open. Each book centers on a different couple within the hospital’s extended community. The series spine — Mercy’s ongoing struggle against corporate acquisition and closure — carries across all five books, escalating from quiet evaluation in Book 2 to near-collapse in Book 4 to redefinition in Book 5.

The series is built as a connected character-web ecosystem in the tradition of Robyn Carr’s Virgin River, Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove, and Susan Mallery’s Fool’s Gold — with the more emotionally restrained, literary-leaning register of Patti Callahan Henry and Kristan Higgins. Each book is a complete romance with earned HEA. Read in sequence, the books deliver a layered, accumulating sense of place and community.

Second Chance at Mercy General: A Slow-Built Small-Town Romance (Mercy General Series Book 1)

From the series: The Mercy General Series

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...

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New Beginnings at Mercy General: Some people come to change a place. Others come to find where they belong. (Mercy General Series Book 2)

From the series: The Mercy General Series

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...

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