Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.
Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working
hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in
Maine where she grew up — she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and
started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous
neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems
almost too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a
little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot
for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily
can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to
relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the
exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him
that way in the first place. As questions about her new relationship
overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan — her first love and a
link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her
protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with
Ryle is threatened.