Veterinarian Elijah Drycinski has always loved the girl next door, but she saw him as her best friend and nothing more. Then Gwen Bartelt returns to Pine River, Wisconsin from practicing medicine in the big city and Eli has a chance to show her that small-town life offers both professional satisfaction and the chance at passion--with him. Complete with an amusing menagerie of characters--both human and animal--as well as a secondary love story between Gwen's father, the crusty town doctor still mourning his wife, and his nurse, a younger woman who has always admired him, Doctor, Doctor is funny, poignant and different.