THE CARE WE CHOOSE

Consultant midwife Kerensa Vey has spent years becoming the clinician people trust when birth plans get complicated. She is warm, exact, and relentlessly careful never to make another person’s choice for them. Eli Verran, a consultant pelvic-health physiotherapist, has the opposite problem: when an answer takes time, he has learned to let other people fill the silence.

Now they have to build Penhaven’s first Postnatal Recovery Clinic together.

Their first major patient is pregnant after a traumatic birth that left lasting pelvic-floor and bowel symptoms hidden behind the words “recovered well.” She wants a different experience this time—but every new piece of evidence makes the choice less simple. Kerensa believes autonomy means leaving room. Eli knows silence can become its own kind of answer. Their disagreements are professional, precise…and increasingly personal.

Joint clinics turn into late meetings. Coffee across the road becomes chosen time. One unexpectedly vulnerable swimming lesson reveals more than either of them intended. And the attraction growing between them starts to test the very instincts they use to protect other people.

Because asking to be chosen is not the same as taking the choice away. And some answers are worth waiting for.

Set in a fictional coastal Cornwall hospital, The Care We Choose is a warm, emotionally grounded medical romance about competent adults, honest influence, and the courage to say what you want.

Book 6 in the CORNWALL MATERNITY UNIT Series.Interconnected standalones. New couple in every book. Best enjoyed in order.