A grown-up small-town romance for readers who have lived long enough to know what they want - and what they don't.
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About the Book
Emergency-room physician Emily Carter is forty-seven and running. After a patient she didn't save - and a review board that almost ended her career - she takes a quiet job at Mercy General, a small-town hospital in a town she's never been to and doesn't plan to stay in.
Daniel Reeves is the surgeon who stayed. Widowed, grounded, and quietly attentive in the way only grief teaches a person to be, Daniel sees in Emily what she has spent fourteen months refusing to see in herself.
What unfolds across one hard winter is the kind of slow, careful love story two grown people make when neither came looking for one. There's a storm. There's a hospital fighting for its life. There's a ceramic rooster that won't leave a kitchen counter.
And there's a town that, somewhere along the way, decides to let Emily have it.
Second Chance at Mercy General is the first novel in the Mercy General Series.
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