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Dr. Charlotte Austin has spent twenty-eight years mastering the art of survival.
As one of Cedars-Sinai's trauma surgeons, she's built a life around controlled chaos-saving lives through impossible shifts, surviving on caffeine and sarcasm, and pretending she's perfectly fine whenever anyone asks.
Love, on the other hand, has never fit neatly into her schedule.
When her friends decide her nonexistent dating life has officially become a problem, Charlotte finds herself dragged into blind dates, unsolicited relationship advice, and increasingly ridiculous attempts at setting her up.
Between midnight trauma calls, emotional burnout, and a career that leaves little room for anything else, romance seems unlikely.
Then someone unexpected begins appearing in the spaces between her carefully planned life.
Not all at once.
Not dramatically.
Just slowly enough for Charlotte to miss the moment everything starts changing.
Because some people don't arrive like a storm.
Some people arrive quietly.
Then all at once.
And for the first time in her life, Charlotte has to decide whether protecting her heart is worth losing the person who finally makes her want to stay.