Widow Deirdre Steen has spent the last five years making sure sheâs the best chief nursing officer Yukon Valley Hospital has ever seen. It cost her a personal lifeâand protected her heart. But now her childhood friend, Dr. Calvin Garrettâthe one who got awayâis temporarily lending his emergency medicine skills to their rural hospital in Alaskaâs interior. The communityâs relentless matchmaking network loves a challenge, which leaves Deirdre with one viable option: a fake dating pact with Calvin until the spring Breakup Festival and his inevitable departure to his regular job and his life in Seattle.
Calvin moved away years ago rather than watch his best friend marry Deirdre. Now, amazingly, sheâs in Calvinâs bed and the center of his world. Yet a woman like Deirdre deserves foreverâas well as a man who didnât finish as runner-up the first time around.
Can an Alaskan spring thaw help two wounded healers thaw the ice surrounding their hearts and fulfill this second chance at love?
Widow Deirdre Steen has spent the last five years making sure sheâs the best chief nursing officer Yukon Valley Hospital has ever seen. It cost her a personal lifeâand protected her heart. But now her childhood friend, Dr. Calvin Garrettâthe one who got awayâis temporarily lending his emergency medicine skills to their rural hospital in Alaskaâs interior. The communityâs relentless matchmaking network loves a challenge, which leaves Deirdre with one viable option: a fake dating pact with Calvin until the spring Breakup Festival and his inevitable departure to his regular job and his life in Seattle.
Calvin moved away years ago rather than watch his best friend marry Deirdre. Now, amazingly, sheâs in Calvinâs bed and the center of his world. Yet a woman like Deirdre deserves foreverâas well as a man who didnât finish as runner-up the first time around.
Can an Alaskan spring thaw help two wounded healers thaw the ice surrounding their hearts and fulfill this second chance at love?