I believe this is the first book I've read by this author. At first, I wasn't sure I was going to like it but by the end, I was invested in the characters.

Hutchinson did a good job at having parallel storylines that weren't overtly obvious.

Cam has a job he likes but doing the right thing means going against the "blue line" and his fellow officers turn on him. This results in him asking for a transfer without consulting his wife--to be a bit fair to Cam, his wife's brother was in critical condition at the time, so it probably was not the best time to add something to her plate though I do still think he needed to.

Alex, Cam's wife, likes her job in the big city hospital, but chooses to follow her husband to the small town he's transferred to when she gets a job at the hospital there. She does find she likes the family practice more than she'd thought she would, but errors by the senior doctor there force her into reporting him which earns her the same treatment Cam received from his coworkers.

There were times I did wish that Cam and Alex would just sit down and talk and it did get frustrating, but it turned out that was part of the plot and when they finally did talk honestly, it meant that much more.

I am also glad to see Cam's brother, David, maturing and taking responsibility. I'm not sure I believe in the love-at-first-sight idea espoused in the book--and I certainly wouldn't recommend marrying someone after knowing them for so short a time, but . . . for a fictional happy-ever-after it was nice to see. ( )