Love. Medicine. Can they both go together? Can a doctor too compassionate about medicine be in love, just with as much passion? Leyah Yale. The youngest in her family of physicians, born and brought up in Boston, falls in love at a tender age with Nihl Ahmrell, an engineer from a family of lawyers. Elixir Vitae is a story of Leyah's love for the man of her life and her patients.