Laura Hayes has been a retired NFL superstar's wife for ten years. She hasn't touched a patient in four.
Since March, someone has been following her.
She tells no one. In Jake's world, a frightened woman becomes a story other people manage. Then, on the night Laura finally decides to tell her husband, the photographs arrive first.
Jake outside a bar six miles from home, his hand at a cheerleader's back, his wedding ring caught in the flash. He's supposed to be in Charlotte.
The six weeks she can survive. The six hours she can't.
Ninety minutes east, Laura reinstates her medical license and opens a practice in a dead storefront on Depot Street. A boy with a ruined knee runs again. A landlord who expects nothing gets his rent anyway. For the first time in years, Laura's life belongs to her.
Then the man who's been following her comes east too.
Whatever Laura decides about her marriage, she intends to finish this herself. And Jake will have to decide whether winning his wife back means finally letting her take control.
A high-angst second-chance romance with a cheating husband, a fiercely capable wife, a dangerous secret, and a hard-won HEA. No cheating!
