The DOCTOR'S Second Chance: A Clean Small Town Medical Romance (Pine Ridge Hearts Series) by Jefferson Cross

She has spent eleven years holding a town together. He may be the one man steady enough to help her stop doing it alone. Dr. Norah Halvorsen didn’t come to Pine Ridge looking for comfort. She came because the town needed her — and for eleven years, she has kept the Pine Ridge Community Clinic running through long days, impossible choices, and patients who have nowhere else close to turn. Then an urgent federal notice arrives. Unless the clinic can prove it has a second licensed physician on staff, Pine Ridge could lose the funding that keeps its doors open. Enter Dr. Caleb Reeves. Quiet. Capable. Unshakably calm in a crisis. Caleb doesn’t try to take over Norah’s clinic, her patients, or her life. He simply steps in where the strain is heaviest — beside her in exam rooms, beside her in hard decisions, beside her when the weight she has carried alone finally begins to show. Read more