Kerah Moss was on the fast track to becoming the first veterinarian in her family. She had the intelligence, the love for animals, and the drive necessary to become one of the foremost veterinary experts in the nation. Unfortunately, she didn’t count on the naivete that led her from the office hours to the bed of her most trusted professor. Her trusted married professor. Their forbidden passion explodes and erupts, eventually leading to the near-fatal car accident that leaves her broken, alone, and no longer able to finish vet school. Five years later, her life is back on track. She’s healed, mostly, and ready to return to the career path she’d lost, this time with an experienced head on her twenty-nine-year-old shoulders. Everything is perfect…except for the hot-tempered former SOAR Army pilot turned Firefighter-Paramedic who comes barging into the animal rescue she runs at least once a week. Elias the Wicked. He’s rude, coarse, and bullish, but whatever he throws at her, she gives it back just as good. He’s also gorgeous as sin…and she wants him. He’s more trouble than what she’s already put herself through, but She. Wants. Him. Everything is fine as long as she doesn’t find out the secret Elias has been harboring ever since a chance encounter with a girl he met in a chat room forum: He’s in love with her. He’s been in love with her for months. And as long as neither of them finds out the other’s true feelings, they’ll avoid the collision of their bodies coming together, the erotic explosion of sexual self-discovery, a quirky yet wholesome love that escapes definition, and the dark secret Elias harbors in which the woman he loves is also the woman whose life he’s been ordered to end.