The beautiful twenty-nine year old Mallory Mason was not your normal nurse, she was a surgical nurse working at the same hospital as her two best friends, Chole in cardiac care and Daisy in pediatrics. Working four twelve hour shifts, with three days off, and all three still single. Mallory’s only serious problem was her two best friends were both in a serious relationship and she managed to fall in love with the only man in her city who actually avoided love, Weston Richards, who was a Physics Professor. Due to a humiliating breakup with his first true love in college and was not about to settle down, trusting no female to be faithful and refused to discuss it. Protecting him and his broken heart from again experiencing the pain of that humiliation.
Mallory then managed to meet an older man, Michael Brown, in his late forties, at her apartment gym, from England. Doing research on Anesthesia in the United States. And, since she was a surgical nurse and working at a local hospital. Mallory allowing him to pick her brain about her job and the two of them becoming best friends.. Their true and deep friendship jokingly allowing her to claim him as her older brother from a stateside mother and he claimed her as the little sister he should have had. He also carried the memory of the pain he suffered from the tragic death of his wife and baby boy buried deep in his memory over twenty years ago, yet still controlling his life when it came to romance.
Their relationship developing into a support system with Mallory introducing and helping Michael with getting the information he needed for his research and she also introduced him to a nurse that was perfect for him, helping him to erase his tragic memories of his first marriage.
Michael, in turn, helped Mallory with her relationship with the reluctant Weston Richards.