Stephanie Archer

Bedside Manner: A Novel Stephanie Archer

A medical resident spars with the hospital's most brilliant and feared plastic surgeon—and then finds herself unwittingly mentoring him—in this spicy and heartfelt romance from the viral TikTok author of the Vancouver Storm series.

Linden Starling is an anesthesia resident who survives residency by being kind, competent, and easy to like. But when a complex surgery goes wrong, she’s publicly blacklisted by Dr. Grant Cross, a gifted and notoriously difficult plastic surgeon, putting her career and reputation at risk. At the same time, Linden’s finances unravel, and the home she inherited from her grandmother is weeks from repossession.

Desperate for a solution, Linden secretly joins a high-end escort app under a pseudonym, intending to take only a few discreet bookings. Her first client, Christian C., turns out to be Grant Cross himself.

After a mortifying first encounter, Grant places Linden on retainer, but not for sex. His ruthless bedside manner has cost him a coveted pediatric fellowship, and he needs Linden’s help repairing his reputation. As Linden becomes his unlikely guide to empathy, communication, and connection, their strictly professional arrangement begins to blur.

But while Linden struggles to control her growing attraction to Grant, they're assigned to the same rotation—spending countless
hours together—and it becomes clear that even a sterile hospital can't damper the chemistry between them. . . .