Angie Dauwen is a young psychiatric nurse practitioner for a small chain of assisted living facilities in northwestern Minnesota, dealing primarily with dementia patients. She is caring, an optimist, and determined to help her patients and their families cope with the present scourge of the elderly-memory loss. She is given a new assignment-evaluate a new patient and provide an assessment. Leonard Morelli is bad-tempered, vile, and combative, and attempts to thwart her every effort. He is also the most interesting person she has ever met. What follows is more than a doctor-patient relationship. It is a battle of wills that will test everything she has always believed.From the author of Hands, Crown Thy Good, and The Empty Light of Secrets.