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Returning to Chicago after twenty-four months of complete isolation on a remote, volcanic outpost in the South Atlantic, Paramedic Captain Cameron Halstead walks back through the sliding glass doors of Gaffney Chicago Medical Center entirely unannounced. Carrying the heavy physical and emotional weight of two years spent cut off from the modern grid, cell phones, and the rest of the world, Cameron's first instinct is simply to find his footing in the city he left behind. Instead, he is immediately intercepted in the bustling ER lobby by his younger brother, Detective Jay Halstead, whose stunned reaction shatters years of uncertainty. That unexpected reunion sparks a fragile, long-buried hope that trauma surgeon Connor Rhodes—the brilliant man Cameron has secretly loved for years, and the one person he was too afraid to ask to wait—might still be holding on for his return.