Lissie is a nurse in a gritty hectic London neighborhood Always terribly competent and good at keeping it all together she’s been suffering quietly with PTSD after helping to save the victim of a shocking crime Her supervisor quietly arranges for Lissie to spend a few months doing a much less demanding job in the little town of Kirrinfeif in the Scottish Highlands hoping that the change of scenery will help her heal Lissie will be swapping places with Cormack an Army veteran who’s Kirrinfeif’s easygoing nurse/paramedic/all-purpose medical man Lissie’s never experienced small-town life and Cormack’s never spent more than a day in a big city but it seems like a swap that would do them both some good In London the gentle Cormack is a fish out of the water in Kirrinfief the dynamic Lissie finds it hard to adjust to the quiet But these two strangers are now in constant contact taking over each other’s patients endlessly emailing about anything and everything Lissie and Cormack discover a ne