Katie Hayes has spent years patching broken people back together. Working nights as a trauma nurse means blood, violence and death have become part of her routine, but she has one rule: everyone deserves saving. Even Ezekiel Cross. Quiet, tattooed and impossible to read, Zeke arrives in her emergency department with blood on his hands and secrets in his eyes. Rumours follow him wherever he goes, yet beneath the hardened exterior is a man who looks at Katie as though she’s the only good thing he’s ever seen. What begins as chance encounters quickly becomes something impossible to ignore. As Katie is pulled deeper into Zeke’s world, she discovers that the man everyone fears isn’t just hiding a violent past—he’s fighting a battle with himself every day. Because some men fall in love. Zeke Cross is consumed by it. And in a city where love can be as dangerous as violence, Katie must decide whether the safest thing she can do is walk away… …or risk everything for the only man who’s ever made her feel completely seen. Some loves heal you. Others become the thing you can’t survive without.