Sometimes the person who loves you the most is the one who hurts you the most. Lily Bloom hasn’t had an easy life, but she’s always been determined to build the life she wants. She’s come a long way from her small hometown in Maine, graduating from college, moving to Boston, and starting her own business. When she meets the handsome neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid, everything seems almost too perfect.

Ryle is confident, stubborn, and a bit arrogant, but he’s also sensitive, brilliant, and deeply cares for Lily. His good looks don’t hurt either, and Lily can’t stop thinking about him. However, Ryle’s strong aversion to relationships is unsettling. As Lily becomes the exception to his “no dating” rule, she starts to wonder what caused his reluctance in the first place.

As doubts about her relationship with Ryle grow, Lily also finds herself thinking about Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a connection to her past. Atlas was her protector and kindred spirit, and when he unexpectedly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is put at risk.