Emergency Protocols

Priya Sharma is the town's designated emergency contact. ER nurse, best friend on speed dial, keeper of the emergency kit, she's the woman everyone calls when it's bad. She reads people like monitors. She gives spectacular advice. She has never once taken it.

Because Priya has a system: ninety days, clean exits, a laminated list per breakup. It's never failed.

That's the problem.

Enter Dr. Theo Okonkwo—the infuriatingly calm new attending who commits adverse possession of her diner booth on a Friday and walks into her ER on Monday. He's economical. He's unimpressed. He recites property law over pie. And he's the first person in twelve years to notice when Priya goes dark—and show up at her door with takeout and a diagnosis.

The hospital calls their radio frequency "the married channel." The diner opens a betting pool. The whole town refuses to mind its own business.

And Priya's ninety-day countdown is already running.

A grumpy/sunshine workplace romcom where the roles aren't what they seem, with found family, one hotly disputed diner booth, and a love story about letting someone hold the phone for once.