Another 80 hour week battling death once more, and my only solace is a brief rooftop escape for a smoke. Then Bethany appears—the hospital's most maddening attraction, immune to my usual charms. We've circled each other for years, drawn together and pushed apart by trauma's hectic tide…yet I know nothing real about the sharp-tongued surgeon beyond the ER masks we both hide behind. But as moonlight and confession stir impossible questions, I'm suddenly wondering if this prickly healer hides the cure to my deeper wounds…and if I possess courage enough to stop resisting. They call me cardiac's cocksure rockstar, racing through trysts too fast to recall names or numbers. But Beth's penetrating eyes dare me toward CONNECTION something more dangerous than any surgical gamble faced before.
Am I ready trade the safety of scalpels for the greatest risk I've never been brave enough to attempt: genuinely trusting another with my imperfect physician's heart? I'm Luca Michaelson…and she could be my ultimate operation success or most catastrophic failure. If she gives me the chance.
