Ryan Werner was known across Memorial Hospital as the calmest surgeon in Miami — serious, controlled, and impossible to shake. But when a terrible car accident sends his wife and two children into his own emergency room, Ryan is forced to operate on the people he loves most while hiding the panic threatening to break through his perfect professional facade.
Late August, 2020 The pub was loud with football commentary, laughter, and the sound of billiard balls knocking together. John Thomson sat with his friends in their usual corner. At thirty-one, tall and broad-shouldered with dark wavy hair and a short beard, he was trying to enjoy a quiet evening off from work. Then the pub door opened. A woman stepped inside. Not from the town. Not even from England. Her long dark brown hair fell over her shoulders, and her butter-yellow dress caught his attention immediately. John looked up. She looked back. And for a brief moment, neither of them looked away.