Doc O'Brien Meets His Match

Philadelphia journalist Maggie Sinclair has one goal: prove that a woman can do serious work in a world determined to keep her writing about hat fashions and parlor teas. When her cousin falls gravely ill in the Colorado Territory, stranding her in the small town of Buckhorn Gap, Maggie sees opportunity — including the story potential of the town's brilliant, infuriating, and entirely too observant frontier doctor.

Dr. Patrick O'Brien didn't come to Buckhorn Gap for company. He came to practice medicine as he sees fit, using the most recent advances in the rapidly developing field, and documenting the Ute people's medicinal knowledge before it disappears forever. It’s meticulous, solitary work that does not require a sharp-tongued journalist asking inconvenient questions. He is not charmed by Maggie Sinclair. He is not.

But when Maggie's skills as a botanical illustrator make her the ideal partner for his research, Patrick finds himself working alongside the one person most likely to dismantle his carefully constructed defenses. He refuses to ask her to be less than she is. She sees straight through to the tender heart he keeps so carefully hidden. In Buckhorn Gap, two people who never wanted to need anyone are about to find out what it means to be truly seen, and valued, exactly as they are.

Doc O'Brien Meets His Match is a clean slow burn historical romance featuring a grumpy but sweet frontier doctor, a heroine who refuses to be told what she can't do, and the Colorado Territory in all its beautiful, unforgiving glory. Second in the Buckhorn Gap series — and can be read as a standalone.