After the rain

Avelina Belo is eighteen, the summer before her senior year of high school, when a charismatic cowboy invites her to dinner. Three months later they are married, and she starts a new life on a Montana ranch. A few years on, her life collapses.

Nate Meyers, fresh out of medical school, is on track to become UCLA's next star heart surgeon. His intense focus drives his success, and it also costs him. A routine surgery ends in disaster and derails his career, and he realises nobody is waiting at home to help him recover.

Nate retreats to his uncle's ranch in Montana. There he meets Avelina, a beautiful young woman who keeps to herself and hardly speaks. As he learns what happened to her, she shows him things about the heart that he had never understood.

This is a contemporary romance about second chances after youthful dreams fall apart. The mood is emotional, and the story turns on whether two wounded people can trust each other enough to risk everything.