Stand-In Bride Becomes a Medical Legend

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Evelyn Reed is the youngest Associate Director of Urology at a top New York hospital, and for three years her husband, Nate Thorne, has doted on her with a devotion that made her the envy of the city. When her younger brother, Caleb Reed, suffers acute renal failure and cardiac arrest, only the blood bank at Nate's private medical facility holds a matching supply. Evelyn makes ninety-nine calls. None are answered. Caleb dies at 3 AM, and hours later a photo arrives from Nate's assistant: Nate in San Francisco, embracing Sophia Smith, the first love he funded for ten years.

Nate returns after the funeral, apologising about a broken phone, and signs two documents without reading them. They are divorce papers. Then Evelyn learns she is four weeks pregnant, and a spare key to Nate's private apartment opens a door onto walls of photographs, a drawer of medical records bearing Sophia's name, and a diary that recasts their entire marriage. To Nate, she was never a wife, only a stand-in who resembled Sophia and a physician whose research could save her.