Registered ER nurse Lauren McCaffrey arrives in Dogwood Springs, Missouri, hoping for a fresh start in her career and in her life after her family's humiliating attempts to set her up with a man--any man. Still, she's lonely, and her only friend in town is an appealing single man. Can she risk getting closer after she's already made a fool of herself over one man who loved another woman? Dr. Grant Sheldon accepts the position as ER director in that same small town in hopes that his teenaged twins, Brooke and Beau, will find solace from the death of their mother, his beloved wife. To his dismay, he discovers that even this isolated community is not free from all the problems he thought he'd left behind in the big city. When the town's tranquility is threatened by a mysterious epidemic and people start dying, Grant and Lauren find themselves in a desperate search for answers. If you like Jan Karon novels and enjoy medical drama with a touch of humor, The Healing Touch Series should be your next reading choice.