Promise, a ranching community in the Hill Nation, is a place using a mysterious former and a secret or two hidden under its everyday external. It’s also a location where family and friendship are the things that basically matter… They call her Dr. Texas. She’s Jane Dickinson, a newly graduated physician from California who’s functioning in the Promise medical clinic – but just for a couple of years. They call him Mr. Grouch. Cal Patterson was left on the altar by his out-of-state fiancée, and he’s not over it yet. Too poor Jane reminds him so much of the girl he’s wanting to forget! “Macomber puts a new twist on the small-town love.” -Publishers Weekly