Second Chance at Mercy General: A Slow-Built Small-Town Romance

By Clara Langford

A grown-up small-town romance for readers who have lived long enough to know what they want - and what they don't.

Emergency-room physician Emily Carter is forty-seven and running. After a patient she didn't save - and a Boston review board that almost ended her career - she takes a quiet job at Mercy General, an underfunded hospital in a town she's never been to and doesn't plan to stay in.
Daniel Reeves is the surgeon who stayed. Widowed, grounded, and quietly attentive in the way only grief teaches a person to be, Daniel sees in Emily what she has spent fourteen months refusing to see in herself.
What unfolds across one hard Minnesota winter is the kind of slow, careful love story two grown people make when neither came looking for one. There's a midnight blizzard and a child who almost doesn't make it. There's a corporate executive holding the hospital's survival in a leather portfolio. There's a woman who drives nine hours to look Emily in the face. There's a ceramic rooster that refuses to leave a kitchen counter.
And there's a town that, somewhere along the way, decides to let Emily have it.

Perfect for fans of:
- Karen Booth's mature midlife romances
- Kristan Higgins's small-town emotional honesty
- Robyn Carr's Virgin River series
- Patti Callahan Henry's quiet literary register

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYP46XDT
• ISBN13: 9798258993199
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"