A Prescription for Two – Paperback

Dr. Beatrice Montgomery has been running for eleven weeks. Her guardian has forged her father’s will and signed papers to lock her away as unsound, so she has become Miss Marsh, a housekeeper with a carpetbag and a borrowed name. The Matrimonial Bureau in Bitter Creek has a position for her. It has not told the gentleman.

Dr. Thomas Vance has not asked for a housekeeper. He has asked for sleep, which is harder to find. He is the only doctor for fifty miles, and he has not eaten a meal with another human being in months. Then a young woman in a gray dress hands him the right instrument, in the dark, in the middle of a surgery, without being asked.

When a diphtheria outbreak closes the town and her guardian’s lawyers arrive, Thomas offers her a way out: a paper marriage with seven clauses, a name, and the protection of the law. Nothing owed that is not freely given. Neither of them plans to need more than that.

A Prescription for Two is a sweet, slow-burn western romance about two stubborn doctors, a town in quarantine, and a love story that begins as a contract. It is book three of the standalone Hearts of Bitter Creek series.