Embers of Lies, Sparks of Love

Jean Anson is a doctor married to Ian Logan, and by the time she stops making excuses for him she has a full accounting of what he has done to her. She hits back hard and in the open, and then she stages her own death and lets him bury a woman who is not there. Ian comes apart. He spends his days chasing a trail that keeps going cold, refusing to accept what everyone tells him is finished. Jean is living somewhere else under another life with Scott Gray, who loved her long before any of this and never made an issue of it. The two of them work as physicians in the place they have settled, keeping people alive through emergencies nobody outside the town hears about, while Ian keeps searching.