Big city doctor Nora Walsh relocates to Paradise Cove after discovering her boyfriend is cheating on her, with a much younger resident. Thinking a couple years break from the massively busy ER AND dating will refresh her, Nora isn't counting on stoic, size of a mountain local Jake Ramsay to become both her best friend and eventually her lover. But they both agree, it will never be anything more.

A deeply poignant romance with a current of extreme grief running underneath it all, Paradise Cove is much more than a light beach read.

I was absolutely loving this one until

Spoiler

Nora misses a few days of her birth control after her grandmother's death/funeral and becomes pregnant. She, a physician, thinks her five minute best orgasm of her life might also be why. She decides to keep the baby, abortion is on the table and I'm glad it is discussed and is a viable option and her friends support her, but it made my heart hurt to see Jake getting told, him reacting badly because well, his baby died, and then they have to come back from that. It was a lot after a quiet and slow build of their romance. I'm personally finding pregnancy plot lines hard to deal with right now so this is my personal bias/issue

CW cancer, death of a family member (on page), death of a child (in the past), pregnancy issues, on page medical descriptions