pThe four-month-old baby at the end of Rebecca Mark's first novel, A Calm Round of Hours, is all grown up, living in Chicago, working as an emergency room doctor at Northwestern, and trying to find the love of his life.ppIt's the Monday after Easter in 2014, and this new novel's first-person narrator, Dr. Peter Byron White, has just turned thirty-three. Stopping after work one night in a Lincoln Park bar, he hopes to meet a woman he can take home, but instead he encounters five DePaul seniors, only one of whom he is attracted to. He thinks he will never see Ellie again, but then he chances to run into her one Sunday in May, and she agrees to go out to dinner with him the following Friday.ppEarlier Peter has learned that his friend-with-benefits co-worker Jennifer no long wants to see him because she has begun a new relationship, so Peter is eager to see Ellie. During dinner that evening, she tells Peter she does not want to talk about her family because of a hardship her family is deal