She’s a divorced mom of two amazing boys, a math teacher, and late-night server at a bar – and her appendix just burst. He’s an ambitious, good-looking, warm nurse with an unusual background that he doesn’t talk about. When Sophia and Trevor meet, she’s his patient, but she can’t shake the feeling that the connection between them might be more than his professional warmth.

Sophia Kiernan is sick of men. Or at least sick of Kelvin, her ex, who spent the last two years of their marriage emotionally abusing her and who now manipulates the system to leave her on the edge of destitution. At least she has her parents, who help when she goes to her night job which she’s working to help her advance her career. But one night after a week full of pain, she collapses.

Trevor Perkins is an ambitious nurse with a plan: finish his advanced degree and become a hospital administrator. He works as a nurse and a physician’s assistant for the gastroenterologist at Faithful Heart Hospital. Trevor sometimes feels the lack of the life he left behind, but he loves what he’s doing now.

When Sophia wakes up in the hospital with Trevor as her nurse, the connection is almost palpable. She tries to convince herself it’s just Trevor’s warm professionalism, but he keeps looking at her – which she notices because she can’t take her eyes off him.

Then they go on a date and it feels to Sophia like the math is simple: her plus him equals happiness.

But the date endangers his job, unless they lie, which neither of them is comfortable with.

As Sophia helps Trevor reconnect with his past and Trevor helps Sophia navigate her complicated, frustrating life, their feelings can’t be denied. He

But if they indulge those feelings, their life goals could be derailed.

Will Sophia and Trevor find a way to be each other’s lifelong plus-one, or will they resign themselves to the impossibility of a relationship? If they make the wrong choice, careers will be destroyed and they’ll be lonelier and more disconnected than ever.

She’s a quiet, single physical therapist who worries that she’ll never cook for more than one person. He’s a returning patient with whom she’d connected three years ago – but back then, he was married. Now, when Christy and Ryan meet again, he’s carrying a secret wound he struggles to talk about, and she can’t get his eyes and smile out of her head.

Christy Bowen, on paper, is a catch and she knows it. She has an MD in physical therapy, just turned thirty, has a great job, and the mirror is kind to her – even though she wishes she wasn’t softening in the middle. But she overthinks things so much that she smothers relationships to death. But when Ryan walks into the clinic, hope ignites in a way it hasn’t in years – except it’s absolutely against Faithful Heart Hospital’s code of ethics for caregivers and patients to date.

Ryan Mitchell is lonely, in pain in his repaired shoulder and in his heart, and remembers connecting with Christy so well three years ago. When he sees her again, he can’t get her out of his mind. But what happened with his wife is so difficult for him to process, much less talk about, that it’s a barrier to any new relationship – except Christy makes him feel something he hasn’t in years: seen.

Their reconnection is instant and electric. They click so completely that he asks her out and in a rare moment of impulsiveness, she accepts.

But dating Ryan puts Christy’s job in danger.

Should they date in secret? Can they wait until he’s not a patient and risk the fragile hope each is feeling?

Will they find a way to navigate ethics, deep emotional wounds, and challenging family dynamics to finally heal each other’s hearts? Or will fears and miscommunications leave them lonelier than ever?

She’s a single project manager, writer, and runner who, at age thirty, is resigned to being the coolest aunt ever to the kids of her brother – who has a brain tumor. He’s a warm, independent nurse at the oncology clinic who is comfortable in his controlled life. When Angie and Pete meet at her brother’s first chemo treatment, the attraction is undeniable for both of them.

Angie Harris has lost both parents, and now that her oldest brother is fighting for his life, she’s terrified of losing him. Even though her employment is on unstable ground, her writing isn’t bringing any success, and she hasn’t had a social life outside of her girlfriends, she prioritizes helping David and his family through this incredible challenge, including accompanying him to his chemo treatments.

Pete Murphy has done everything he can to keep his life simple, under control, and independent. His job as a nurse at an oncology clinic is steady and pays enough. He stays fit and well-groomed through good habits. His hobby work on his beloved truck is a great pastime. And the girls he dates are simple, undemanding, and pretty.

When Angie first sees Pete, she’s got him all figured out: fit, steady job, simple life. But he makes her laugh. And he listens. And she makes him laugh. And he has the best pickup truck ever.

Neither of them expects to fall so hard – and so fast. And it scares them both.

Now, as Pete examines his stubborn independence and Angie tries to deal with David’s worsening condition, her precarious job, and a lifetime of fears, they’ll both have to decide if they can let the other carry them through the hardest time of their lives.

Will they be able to maneuver through insecurity, miscommunication, terrifying loss, and hurt to open each other’s heart to a lifetime of hope and love and joy? Or will they retreat into their safe, but lonely, independence and somehow wait for the yearning to fade?