FIRST INCISION

Maya Ortiz has always known who she is: driven, precise, and devoted to the work. As a second-year surgical resident at Mercy General Hospital, she has no time for anything that can't be filed, managed, or set aside for later.Dr. Sloane Whitaker is the most demanding attending physician Maya has ever encountered - and the most extraordinary. For ten years, Sloane has kept her professional life and her personal one in entirely separate rooms. The system works. It has always worked.Until Maya arrives.Over fifteen weeks of shared surgeries, overnight emergencies, and a single word offered at a fourth-floor window, both women find themselves paying attention in ways that cannot be managed, archived, or adequately explained. Maya is on the verge of understanding something about herself she has never had the language for. Sloane is running out of reasons to maintain the careful distance she built for very good reasons.First Incision is a slow-burn F/F medical romance about the courage required to be truly seen - and the specific, devastating difficulty of letting someone see you back.The first book in the On Call for Love series.

Pages: 486, Paperback, Independently published