After an unpleasant experience getting stitches leaves her disenfranchised with doctors, Hero Atticus Taylor decides to be proactive. Capitalizing off of her literary-inspired name, she creates the Hero Atticus Taylor School of Manners for All Doctors, and uses both her prejudice toward doctors and her passion for Emily Post to educate medical students in all forms of etiquette. Her job has been a fulfilling and successful endeavor, until an agitating interaction with a former heart surgeon has Hero's manners betraying her. Doctor Lee Taylor is interested in enrolling the surgical students he oversees in Hero's manners school, but he can't help himself from asking her on a date within minutes of meeting her. He is direct, decisive, and confident. Hero's refusal and assumption that he just like very other doctor who belittles her profession, only makes her more interesting to him, Even though he is completely smitten with Hero, Lee cannot seem to gracefully reveal his secrets as their courtship continues.