ALDER REACH MEDICAL CENTER

On the Washington coast, in a port city of ferries, timber towns, and island communities, Alder Reach Medical Center is where the whole region comes when something goes wrong. The doctors, nurses, and clinicians of the Reach hand over patients, decisions, and lives every shift. What they guard is their own hearts.

Each novel in the series brings together two professional equals, among them hospitalists, an ICU attending, a transport nurse, a respiratory therapist, a pharmacist, and a rehabilitation doctor, over one patient whose care neither can manage alone. The case pulls them into the same rooms and the same hard decisions, and slowly exposes the private wound each has built a careful life around.

Expect real medicine that drives the story, leads in their thirties and forties who are good at their jobs and honest about their fears, attraction that grows out of respect, steamy closed-door heat with the emotion fully on the page, and a hard-won happy ending in every book. Each novel is a complete standalone set in the same hospital, where familiar colleagues return from story to story.