She can run a chaotic ER. She can't make a single friend. Then an anonymous app matches her.
Dr. Andie James can run a chaotic emergency department and stare down the hospital's most arrogant surgeon without blinking. It's everything else that's falling apart. Her husband Evan moved out. Her daughter left for college. Her nine-year-old has feelings she doesn't know how to handle, and her house looks like a crime scene.
And here's the realization she can't outwork: without her marriage, she has no one. Not one friend. How can someone this competent be this alone?
So she tries. Speed-friending. Book clubs. A neighbor who won't stop critiquing her from his rocking chair. It's a disaster. Then Connection Services—the anonymous social app everyone's talking about—matches her with someone called Fuchsia Diamond. Fuchsia is warm, funny, folds laundry with alarming conviction, and listens like Andie is worth hearing. With no name and no face attached, Andie does the thing she hasn't managed in twenty years of marriage.
She tells the truth.
But Fuchsia has secrets too. And the closer the two of them get, the harder it is to ignore how much Fuchsia's broken relationship sounds like her own.
A heartfelt, kisses-only marriage-in-crisis romance for fans of Katherine Center, Annabel Monaghan, and Abbi Waxman—where both people are worth rooting for. Inside:
- second chances
- hidden identity / anonymous messages with full receipts
- workaholic heroine, domestic hero
- leads in their 40s, twenty years married
- ER drama and a surgeon who needs humbling
- single POV
- no spice, no cheating, no villain spouse
- a second chance that has to be earned, not handed over
Trigger Warnings: Suicide is mentioned as part of character history (a parent), but is not graphically described. It's mentioned in a few sentences total.
