Come, it could be quite a good story, I would read it.Why is
Colton's heart broken? Was he married, and his wife became tired of him being away all the time, and when at home, he didn't ever tell her about his work? So she left him for/another guy/to go back to school/back-pack around wherever.
How did he come to meet Dr. Ninnie La Bouche? Somehow a child comes into it.
Colton's child? Who is, perhaps,ill with something life-threatening.