Maxwell Thornton isn’t really a people person, but that never mattered to him because he’d lived for his career. After losing a patient during a routine hysterectomy, he’s shaken and afraid to pick up the scalpel again. He resigns his position in the city and takes a job as sole GP in the isolated town of Rainy Dale, Texas, population 1001.
Rainy Dale is populated with eccentrics who test his patience and seem to think he’s not only there to treat their illnesses, but that he’s also there to hold their hand and be their therapist. When one of his most annoying patients ends up dead and floating in Maxwell’s pool, he meets the town sheriff for the first time.
Sherriff Royce Callum is intelligent, determined and suspicious. Seems a little too coincidental to him that the new doctor showed up the same exact time a person is murdered for the first time in twenty years.
As the investigation continues, the two men are unwillingly attracted to each other. But the odds of a happy union aren’t good. Especially since one man hates people, and the other thinks the guy he has the hots for is probably a cold-blooded murderer.
