Hidden Truths at Mercy General

She came to a small town to disappear. The one thing that could save it would mean letting everyone see exactly who she is.
Dr. Rachel Kim chose Mercy General for one reason: nobody in Cedar Falls knows what happened at her last hospital. A bare house out past the streetlights, a job below her training, a wall around everything that matters. After two years of hiding, she has it down to an art.
Then a hard January throws her against Ethan Cole, the county paramedic who reads everyone and is read by no one. He notices the things she works hardest to hide. He doesn't pry. And he carries something of his own, the size of hers, behind the same kind of wall.
When a private-equity firm comes for Mercy the way one came for the hospital Rachel lost, she discovers she is the only person in town who has seen exactly how a place like this dies. She could help. She could maybe even stop it. But the firm has her signature on a paper that says she will stay quiet, and saving the hospital means standing up in front of the whole town and becoming, forever, the woman she drove a thousand miles to stop being.
Some truths cost everything to tell. Some are worth it.
Hidden Truths at Mercy General is a slow-burn, closed-door over-40 romance about two guarded people, a town that holds on to its hospital with both hands, and the particular courage it takes, in the back half of your life, to let someone finally see you. Third in the Mercy General Series, and a complete story with a hard-won happy ending.
The Mercy General Series - small-town love stories for grown-ups who know better and fall anyway.