A provocative new novel about how far one woman will go to save a friendship and battle against injustice from acclaimed author Kimmery Martin. Georgia Brown's profession as a urologist requires her to interact with plenty of naked men, but her romantic life has fizzled. The most important person in her life is her friend Jonah Tsukada, a funny, empathetic family medicine doctor who works at the same hospital in Charleston, South Carolina and who has become as close as family to her. Just after Georgia leaves the country for a medical conference, Jonah receives startling news: the hospital intends to fire him unless he agrees to stop providing medical care for the transgender patients in his practice. Angered by the hospital's actions, Georgia concocts a plan to persuade the board to reverse their decision regarding these patients. But when her scheme spirals out of control, Georgia realizes she could lose not only her career but also her closest friend.

A debut novel that pulses with humor and empathy and explores the heart's capacity for forgiveness...Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships amid the intensity of medical school. Now they're happily married wives and mothers with successful careers—Zadie as a pediatric cardiologist and Emma as a trauma surgeon. Their lives in Charlotte, North Carolina are chaotic but fulfilling, until the return of a former colleague unearths a secret one of them has been harboring for years. As chief resident, Nick Xenokostas was the center of Zadie's life—both professionally and personally—during a tragic chain of events during her third year of medical school that she has long since put behind her. Nick's unexpected reappearance during a time of new professional crisis shocks both women into a deeper look at the difficult choices they made at the beginning of...