- The series follows pediatric heart surgeon Jack Roberts, his family, and the next generation of physicians across decades of personal and professional change.
- Through their lives, the novels explore what happens when the physician-patient relationship increasingly collides with bureaucracy, regulation, financial pressures, and the rapidly changing culture of modern medicine.
- What begins as one physician’s struggle to preserve the meaning of his calling ultimately becomes something larger: an effort to build a different model of healthcare centered on patients, physicians, innovation, and care.