Doctor's Orders: His Secret Pain

Beatrice Barlow is living the high-society Toronto dream: she’s a brilliant surgeon with a private clinic in Bridle Path and a reputation for excellence. But she has a secret she keeps from everyone: she specializes in anorectal surgery, and it’s hard to maintain a romantic mystique when you deal with the human backside for a living. She thought the most awkward part of her week would be the blind date her aunt arranged, until she realizes her new patient is none other than Nelson Hawthorne—the stoic, untouchable heartthrob from her high school days. In a subversion of the classic medical romance, Beatrice doesn't just have to save her crush; she has to treat his hemorrhoids. As professional duty blurs into nightly home visits and sitz baths, Beatrice finds herself navigating a possessive, high-stakes relationship where the path to true love is paved with crude anecdotes, medical suppositories, and the one man she never expected to see in her exam room.