Tormented by self-imposed guilt Dr Lena ODonnell 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 shes determined that this is what she deserves Mason Langleys 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 cant 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 its better to be alone and safe than to love and lose.