The Surgeon Stole My Heart

From the back cover

Elise has spent years under the care of Graham Archer, the cardiothoracic surgeon who built his career around her failing heart and who is now her fiancé. When her mother dies and leaves her heart to Elise, the transplant is meant to give Elise a future — and the chance to carry the twins she is twenty weeks pregnant with.

But Graham signs the donor heart over to Maisie, the five-year-old daughter of his childhood sweetheart Cynthia, and orders the records logged as a tissue incompatibility. Confronted, he insists Maisie cannot survive the wait and that Elise has reserves to spare, refusing to see the choice as anything but medical. Elise, listening from the corridor and then from her hospital bed, understands that between her survival and Cynthia's child he will always choose Cynthia.

Against medical advice, she discharges herself and walks past the pediatric unit, where she sees Graham, Cynthia and Maisie framed in the afternoon sun like a healed family. What she does next will decide whether her mother's dying gift was given in vain.