Tending the Doctor

Elena Ruiz needed a paycheck. She got a retired surgeon's fog-drowned house, a son who won't look at her, and a summer that refuses to end. Dr. Marcus Brennan is forty-nine, widowed, and absolutely not interested in the twenty-four-year-old his mother hired to reorganize the spice rack. But the house is small, the nights are long, and the grief they're both carrying has started to look the same. When his daughter finds out, she makes him choose. He chooses wrong, then right, then wrong again. Tending the Doctor is a slow-burn age gap doctor romance about two people who are not a good idea on paper, and the small coastal town that watches them figure it out anyway.