Michele Harper is a female, Black emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. They stayed together through medical school until just before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn't move with her. Her marriage at an end, Harper began a new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman. The New York Times Bestseller.