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Charlotte Austin has spent twenty-eight years convincing herself she doesn't need love.
As one of Cedars-Sinai's trauma surgeons, she thrives in chaos-surviving impossible shifts, cracking jokes through exhaustion, and saving lives with steady hands despite barely holding herself together outside the operating room.
Love, however, has always felt far less predictable.
So when her friends suddenly decide her nonexistent dating life has officially become a concern, Charlotte finds herself unwillingly dragged into a series of blind dates she never asked for.
Unfortunately, life inside a hospital never slows down long enough for romance to happen normally.
Not between midnight trauma calls.
Not between emotional burnout.
Not when intimacy feels more frightening than death itself.
But somewhere between surgical disasters, quiet drives home, and conversations that begin meaning far more than they should-
Charlotte starts realizing some people don't arrive loudly. Some people arrive slowly. Then all at once.
And for the first time in her life, walking away might not be the hardest part.