When Sparks Collide
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Shanna Reyes walked away from the life everyone expected her to live - a white coat, a hospital nameplate, a perfect career in medicine. After a trauma she refuses to talk about, she traded scalpels for spatulas and opened a restaurant to rebuild herself quietly, away from her family's disappointment.
Brent De Guzman builds skyscrapers, not relationships. With a sharp suit and a sharper tongue, he doesn't have time for chaos - especially not the kind that comes with a stubborn, fiery, ex-med student turned aspiring restaurateur.
They meet at a club. Sparks fly - and not the romantic kind.
They meet again when Brent's construction company is hired to build her dream restaurant - and this time, neither can walk away.
She fell first.
He fell harder.
But love isn't easy when you're both hiding bruises no one else can see.
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