Grace Elaine Foster never meant to be found. After a violent accident leaves her broken beyond human repair—bones shattered, lungs failing, her pulse slipping away in the rain-soaked dark—she fades in and out of consciousness believing this is simply how it ends: quietly, unfairly, unfinished. But fate intervenes in the form of Dr. Carlisle Cullen, who finds her clinging to life by instinct alone. Seeing not just her injuries but the strength beneath them—the fighter, the survivor, the gentleness she hides—Carlisle makes an impossible choice. To save her, he changes her.