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In the trauma center, everything is urgent - bleeding, breathing, breaking.
Except feelings.
Avery Hale has mastered it all: the machines, the fractures, the chaos of a hospital that never sleeps. As an x-ray technologist, she knows how to look straight through people. Bones are easy. Hearts are not.
Her slow-burn disaster begins with Elias, the nurse who lives to drive her crazy - infuriatingly cocky, impossible to read, annoyingly magnetic. Their banter becomes flirting before either of them admits it, and suddenly Avery's heart is learning a rhythm she can't chart.
Then there is Dr. Rowan Vale, the orthopedic surgery resident who has been her safe place for two and a half years - the friend she swore was just a friend. He is gentle where Elias is sharp, quiet where Elias is loud... and very, very married. One unexpected moment turns platonic into forbidden, and everything that was stable becomes dangerous.
Now Avery is caught between trauma codes and unread messages, between the man she shouldn't want and the one she can't stop wanting back. In a hospital where every minute matters, she has to decide:
What do you do when the thing that breaks you doesn't show up on an x-ray?