Love, PRN
Book 1 of the Hearts of Midtown Hospital series of interconnected standalone medical romances
This medical romance novel is high-stakes, dramatic and emotionally heavy, taking place in the emergency room. If you like The Pitt or Grey’s Anatomy, you won’t be able to put it down— a nurse wrote the book and it’s very authentic! Sensitive readers should proceed with caution and mature audiences are recommended. Content warnings are listed below.
Synopsis
Nursing might save her, but at what cost?
Quinn McConnell is nearly finished with nursing school, and ready to begin her new adult life with a solid career and financial stability to boot. Her boyfriend isn’t perfect, but neither is anything else in her life, and she’s made peace with that, or so she thinks. But things change when she begins her emergency room rotation during her final semester: a handsome but irritating and arrogant doctor drives her crazy, a nursing preceptor with a heart of gold becomes her closest friend, and a surprising event has her questioning first impressions and the line between love and hate. Quinn will have to tackle her demons and the grim realities of the nursing profession if she has any hope of surviving her new career, and truly moving on from the horrors of her past.
Readers will root for Quinn through her hardest days as she pursues her happy ending, with romance and humor balancing out the heartbreak and despair of her mental health struggles, the trauma of the emergency room, and the sometimes bleak nature of modern healthcare.
Tropes
Enemies to lovers / loathe to love
He falls first
Medical romance
Doctor nurse romance
Workplace romance in a hospital
Slow burn
Hurt/comfort
Slight age gap (6 years)
“Good girl”
Vibes
New adult romance - life after college graduation
Day in the life of an ER nurse
Found family
Intense medical drama like The Pitt
Being single and dating and finding yourself before finding true love
Saving yourself before letting a man do anything for you
Emotional healing
Moving on from the past
Strong but soft FMC
Romantic tension and banter
Cute and sweet romance with spice
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-Medically distressing situations in the emergency room such as: cardiac arrest, heart attack, stroke, stab wounds, car accidents, traumatic injuries
-Death in the emergency room
-Depictions of blood and gore
-Needles
-Loss of pregnancy
-Foreign body in a patient
-Child abuse and neglect
-Mental illness/distress depicted such as: homicidal tendencies, suicidal tendencies, anxiety, panic attacks, PTSD
-Alcoholism and drug use
-Death of a parent
-Death of a sibling