Maddy's Phoenix

A secret she can’t outrun... a love she never expected.

Maddy McCray has buried more loss than any twenty-two-year-old should carry—including babies of her own she never got to bring home. When she finds an abandoned infant behind the diner where she works, she doesn’t call the police. She calls her a daughter.

With her surrogate mother, Cheryl, at her side, Maddy leaves the only town she’s ever known for a fresh start in Oakland, determined to become the nurse—and the mother—she’s always dreamed of being. What she doesn’t expect is Dr. Bryce Russell: brilliant, wealthy, and utterly out of her league, the professor who looks at her like she’s the only woman in the room.

Falling for Bryce means risking the one thing she can’t survive losing: the truth about where her daughter really came from. As her new life builds around her—nursing school, a found family, a love she never thought she deserved—that truth waits in the wings to take it all away.

Sometimes the family you build out of nothing is the one worth fighting hardest to keep.