Small towns and doctors give Samantha Corwyn hives. They're about to give her a whole lot more.
Sam was ten when a counselor helped her make peace with dying. It was years before she accepted that her mother had lied. Now she keeps a list of everything she wants to do before the end really comes, and a Do Not Resuscitate order on her wrist. When it's time, the ending will be hers.
Dr. Rick McCaffrey wears ridiculous ties and has spent his whole career being the man who listens—the one who fights for every heartbeat.
Sam comes to Endless Skies, Montana, for one sick little girl. Six-year-old Charlie Tate can't keep her supper down, can't stop losing weight, and has a mother the whole town calls a saint.
Sam knows that look. She wore it herself once.
And when she finally says so out loud, the man who built his life on listening tells her she's wrong.
The town lines up behind him.
Eventually Endless Skies claims her anyway. A porch swing. Treats for her dog. More casseroles and pies than one woman can eat. A doctor who keeps turning up with exactly the right thing—and Sam faces the terrifying discovery that she finally has something to lose.
She came for one little girl. Nobody warned her she might want to stay.
Tropes:
- Prickly, funny survivor heroine and the hunky, cinnamon-roll country doc in a ridiculous tie
- Forced proximity in the guest room over the clinic
- Found family in three directions: the people who took her in at ten, a town that adopts her sideways, and four teenagers running a rescue mission out of a supply closet
- A six-pound Yorkshire terrier named Worf, and a hero who has never once been responsible for a dog
- She wears a DNR bracelet at twenty-eight. He’s the doctor who’d have to honor it
- You'll laugh out loud on one page and get wrecked on the next
Standalone contemporary small-town medical romance. Full HEA, no cheating, no cliffhanger
Open-door love scenes. Medium heat level. Some swearing.
