Ocupational Hazard

Dr. Scarlett Sterling knows how to handle an emergency.

After years in veterinary medicine, very little rattles her anymore-not crashing patients, panicked owners, impossible hours, or the general chaos that comes with working in an ER.

Ryan Gosling might be the exception.

When Scarlett accepts an eight-month contract as the production veterinarian on the film adaptation of her favorite fantasy novel, Forever Chosen By You, she expects animal performers, long days, and the surreal experience of watching a story she loves come to life.

She does not expect the actor playing Kalon Nightshade to start showing up at animal holding with her exact coffee order.

Or stealing her food.

Or learning veterinary abbreviations just to make her laugh.

She definitely doesn't expect him to become the only person allowed to call her Lottie.

What begins as an easy friendship becomes increasingly difficult to explain when late-night texts turn into phone calls, accidental touches start lasting too long, and an eight-month contract that once felt endless suddenly has an expiration date.

Scarlett has spent her entire career knowing exactly what to do when something goes wrong.

Falling in love with Ryan Gosling was never in the treatment plan.

Then again-

Nobody warned her he might be an occupational hazard.