Code Blue Hearts

No Greater Love is the second standalone novel in the Code Blue Hearts series, featuring the found family at Metro General Hospital's emergency department.When veteran and single father Nate Crawford defended fellow nurse Tasha Williams from a racist patient, he never expected it to change his life. But Tasha sees through his carefully controlled exterior to the man still haunted by his service in Fallujah-and the father fiercely protecting his eleven-year-old daughter Paige from a world that's already taken too much.Tasha has spent years keeping people at arm's length, but something about Nate and Paige breaks through her defenses. As she becomes part of their lives-from handling Paige's first period emergency to family dinners-she discovers the family she never knew she wanted.Just as they're building something beautiful together, Nate's ex returns after eleven years of silence, armed with expensive lawyers and threatening to tear apart everything they've built. With Tasha pregnant with their child and Paige's future hanging in the balance, they'll have to fight for the family they've chosen. Cari Blake is a former firefighter and EMT turned emergency room nurse, with a weakness for strong coffee, stubborn heroines, and fiery love stories with a pulse. After years of witnessing chaos, heartbreak, and moments of raw humanity in the ER, she started writing the kind of stories she wished she saw more of: honest, hopeful romances grounded in the real world.She never planned to be an author-until her husband (also an ER nurse and an aspiring sci-fi writer) tried to write a romance scene for his novel. It… wasn't great. When he jokingly challenged her to "do better," she did. Much better. The result became Under Southern Stars, Book One of her Code Blue Hearts series.When she's not writing or saving lives, Cari is usually drinking strong coffee, wrangling family life, or walking with her loyal sidekick, Sunny the dog. Every story she writes is a promise: heat, heart, and a happy ending worth believing in.