This is the second book in Denise Hunter’s popular Riverbend Romance series ...
Avery Robinson decided to become a doctor after watching her mother lose a battle with a terrible disease. Now at risk of developing the same illness, Avery guards her heart from love. She’s driven to protect her loved ones as a workaholic doctor in the tiny mountain town of Riverbend Gap, North Carolina.
Contractor Wes Garrett is hiking the Appalachian trail, in memory of the man who died saving his life, when an illness racks his body. After an agonizing fifteen-mile hike to Avery’s clinic, he collapses on her doorstep. He decides to help her renovate a rundown carriage house in order to settle his debt to her. Will he be able to relinquish the debt he owes his best friend? And will Avery find the courage to risk everything for love?