When healing becomes hunger, and therapy turns to temptation...
Dr. Wren Hale thought she'd found her second chance-a prestigious position as sports psychologist for a championship football team. But her fresh start shatters the moment her most challenging client walks through her door.
Ace Carson is everything she shouldn't want.
The star quarterback is raw, damaged, and carrying grief that's destroying his NFL dreams. He's also the mysterious stranger who made her pulse race at Murphy's Bar three nights ago-the man she almost went home with before common sense prevailed.
Now he's her patient. And she's falling hard.
Their sessions blur the line between professional and personal as Wren helps Ace confront the guilt eating him alive. Every breakthrough brings them closer. Every touch threatens to cross boundaries that could destroy them both.
When their secret relationship explodes into public scandal, they face an impossible choice: salvage their careers or fight for a love that could cost them everything they've worked for.