Control

Dodger Carter has spent his entire life being exactly what the Carter name demands-controlled, relentless, untouchable. A cardiothoracic surgeon with no time for sleep, no room for mistakes, and no patience for the siblings who seem determined to tarnish the image he was raised to protect. To everyone else, he's cold. Cruel, even.

But the truth is simpler-and far more dangerous.

Dodger isn't the family's golden child. He's their weapon.

With his parents' expectations tightening like a noose and a secret he's spent years burying threatening to crack open, Dodger keeps his world small: hospital, home, obligation. Until one quiet morning run in a park turns into a collision he never saw coming-a runaway golden retriever, a stranger with an easy smile, and a name that makes a professional baseball player stop short.

Jack Rowan is everything Dodger can't afford: warm, persistent, and entirely uninterested in being intimidated. And when Dodger keeps running into him again and again, the boundary between coincidence and fate starts to blur.

Because it's one thing to hold a heart in your hands.

It's another to risk your own.

Book #3 in the 'Carter' series