Kasey McGowan is a lovely, hugely competent NP (Nurse Practitioner) and head of a community clinic in a low-income Boston community. She's also just found out bad news about her impregnate-and-leave-'em father. He's dead. Of Huntington's disease, a progressive, degenerative neurological condition that is passed down - 50% of the time - to offspring of a carrier parent.

Surgeon Jared Finch is working on getting his credentials in plastic surgery, and assigned to be "on call" at Kasey's clinic. His initial impulse is to cram the required volunteer hours in as fast as possible, so he can move on to making money he desperately leaves, after a bitter divorce and expensive boarding schools for his kids in the Boston area has cleaned him out.

Really liked that these are both adults, that they decide to go for a fling (with condoms, thank you!) and it develops into something a whole lot deeper. It was refreshing that Kasey actually shared her potential diagnosis and worry about the same with Jared from the very beginning, instead of holding it back as some authors might have done, for a Big Reveal at the end.

The writing is a little mechanical in parts, cliche-ridden, "Dr. Tall, Dark and Gorgeous," the steadfast gay best friend, for example. On the other hand, the shifts of POV - from Kasey's to Jared's, or vice-versa - are among both the smoothest and the clearest I've ever read. And I was really hanging on at the end to find out if Kasey did have Huntington's, and hoping/praying either she didn't, or they'd find a way for a HEA (Happily Ever After) after all. Spoiler: they do. ( )