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A celebrated brain surgeon has spent years teaching himself to live above fear, and the effort is killing him. Exhausted, widowed, and worn down by a reckless daughter, he is on the verge of collapse—until a drowning on a quiet Michigan lake takes his life and hands it, by a cruel accident of timing, to a spoiled young heir who never earned it.
Pulled half-drowned from the water and patched up in the famous clinic the surgeon built, the young man learns what his rescue cost. The knowledge settles on him like a debt he can never repay, and he resolves to spend the rest of his life being worth the breath he was given—quietly, anonymously, asking nothing in return.
But good deeds have a way of being noticed, and the woman he comes to love has reasons of her own for keeping secrets. Across years and two continents, a careless idler must become something better than he was, or lose everything that made the struggle worthwhile.
