Short Synopsis
In Ella Frank's sexy debut novel, a gorgeous doctor meets the one man who can break down the walls to her closely guarded heart. Contains mature themes.

Full Synopsis
Tormented by self-imposed guilt, Dr. Lena O'Donnell has spent the last nine years in survival mode. Struggling through days that seem to blend together and battling her way through each horrifying night, she's determined that this is what she deserves...

Mason Langley's life is going exactly the way he planned it, until her. A confirmed bachelor and the successful owner of the hottest restaurant to hit Chicago, he never expected to be blindsided by an angry woman in a pair of scrubs. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to shake the doctor, and he finds himself liking the way she makes him feel.

Almost overnight Lena finds her world turned upside down by Mason and the sexual desire they discover together. Slowly she lowers her guard and invites him inside but when tragedy strikes she begins to believe that sometimes it's better to be alone and safe than to love and lose...