Everyone jumped when Chief of Medicine Rafael Holden-Deane ordered them to. Everyone. He was back in Finley Creek to make the hospital the best it possibly could be. No matter what the cost.

ER Nurse Jillian Beck remembered Rafe from when they’d been children--his attitude now wasn’t any better than it had been then.

Especially where she was concerned.

Rafe was always angry at her for something...

Jillian understood anger, though. Ever since she had almost died, she had lived with her own fury. Her own questions. Her own fears.

Until she wasn’t sure she would ever be able to heal.

Rafe had his own history of hurt to overcome, and the last thing he needed in his life was the one woman who snuck into his dreams at night.

When she and the hospital they both love are threatened, there isn’t anything he won’t do to keep her safe...