In a world where magic hums beneath the skin and science pushes the boundaries of life itself, Grace Ellery has chosen a different kind of power-saving lives the human way. As a paramedic with a rare gift that lets her sense pain before it's spoken, she walks the thin line between compassion and burnout, determined to keep her heart closed to anything that might break it. Then comes Alarike Jamerson Thorne-brilliant, ruthless, and infuriatingly magnetic. As the secretive CEO of Thorne Biotech, his mind is sharp enough to reshape the future of medicine... yet he lacks the one thing his ground-breaking work needs most: a healer's understanding of the body. Or a healer's heart. Forced together by a project that could change the world, Grace and Alarike collide with equal parts friction and fascination. She's stubborn kindness; he's precise ambition. She sees people; he sees possibilities. And neither expected desire to strike with the same intensity as magic. But as their worlds intertwine, buried wounds rise, old threats surface, and the very threads connecting them begin to glow with something neither can name-something powerful, dangerous, and impossible to ignore. Some bonds form loudly. Theirs forms in silence... and refuses to let go.