Ethan

Forty-five seems to be pretty f*cking old to be trying to find myself. And yet, that's exactly where I'm at. Tired of my life as a top cardiovascular surgeon in LA, I packed it all in and took over my former mentor's general practice in Emerson, Tennessee. Talk about a f*cking culture shock. I guess I've spent my time here looking for purpose. Looking for meaning.

And I found it when she walked into my life.

Elodie is half my age, but she makes me feel things I've never felt before. Things I never thought I could feel. What was supposed to be casual and fun has turned into something that's consuming me whole.

I want Elodie.

I want her with everything in me. But when her past comes calling, it intersects with mine in a way I never saw coming. It clashes with my own past in a way that threatens to destroy everything I've been trying to build with her.

Too bad because letting her go isn't an option.

Elodie

Getting a scholarship to go to school in LA was my ticket out. I fled Emerson, the small town in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains I grew up in, and never looked back. I've built a life for myself in LA and love life on the West Coast.

When my grandmother's heart attack pulls me back, I'm more than happy to flee Southern California to escape a borderline abusive relationship. I have to admit, for all the drawbacks of small-town living, being home again is kind of nice.

Coming off a horrible relationship, I was done with men.

But when I meet Ethan, he rocks me to my very core. He opens my eyes, my mind, and my heart in ways I never expected. And despite my vow to swear off relationships in light of my past, Ethan opens me up to the possibility of love again.

But when my past unexpectedly comes crashing down on my present and I learn that Ethan and I share the most shocking of connections, it turns my entire world upside down.

It threatens everything Ethan and I have been building together.

In light of this astonishing connection we share, how can I possibly be with Ethan?

How can he possibly be with me?