What happens when you have nothing? You go looking for something, anything. For Adeline Sloane Sheppard, that was med school. By fourteen she found herself alone and navigating the dangers of a surgical internship until someone stepped in, the first family she ever had, Dr. Owen Hunt.
Two tours of duty, a failed marriage and a baby with a one night stand later, questioning her own mortality, Addy finds her way back to the closest thing she'd known to a home, her big brother. Her father had ties to the hospital he worked at, one way or another she could get answers. Her father was dead, or he'd be standing there across from her in surgery, but at least then she'd know.
Fate has a funny thing about timing though, after Emory had a fibril seizure, Addy stopped at a small suburban hospital, only to meet her ex girlfriend, and an ambulance full of trauma patients with no attending to be found.
As soon as she thinks she's in the clear, they bring in one last trauma, and she finds her own eyes staring back at her.
Meredith is in her final year of medical school when she meets neurosurgeon Derek Shepherd in a bar. Her life filled with the controlled chaos of hospitals takes a dark turn when she is abducted and held captive by the perfect stranger. As she struggles to find her way back to herself, an unlikely bond forms with her captor's ex-wife, who becomes her lifeline in a world of chaos and despair. Together, they navigate through the shadows of trauma and healing, discovering solace and love in the most unexpected of places.