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.
