He came to bury the past. He didn't expect to be buried with it.
Architect Nicholas Vane craves order, but he is drowning in chaos. Inheriting his estranged father’s hoarding estate was a burden; getting crushed under a collapsing wall of debris was a catastrophe. Broken, humiliated, and trapped in the suffocating filth of his childhood home, Nicholas believes he is beyond repair.
Dr. Fred Amherst is a man on the edge. Between a grueling ER schedule and a toxic, high-stakes custody battle for his daughter, he has zero room for error. But when Nicholas lands on his trauma table—shattered, defensive, and beautiful—Fred breaks every protocol in the book. He doesn't just treat the bone; he vows to save the man.
From the sterile heat of the hospital to the intimate shadows of a house filled with ghosts, a forbidden spark explodes into a desperate, consuming fire. Fred is the savior Nicholas doesn't deserve; Nicholas is the risk Fred can't afford to take.
But when Fred’s vindictive ex-husband weaponizes Nicholas’s past to threaten his family, the dream crumbles. Nicholas realizes that his love might be the very thing that destroys Fred’s life. To save the man he adores, Nicholas has to do the one thing that will shatter them both.
Can a love born in the wreckage survive the light of day, or is a clean break the only way to save them?
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