Description

Josie Hollingsworth is beautiful, tenacious, and successful. She's also haunted by her past. For years, her brilliant, mentally ill parents consistently compromised their children's sense of security. But Josie worked diligently to distance herself from them. However, now that her sister has also succumbed to mental illness, Josie fears that all of her efforts were for nothing, that she's doomed to the same fate.Enter Stone Romero, a sexy, charismatic, strong-willed pediatrician. After their unlikely meeting in an Austin, Texas Emergency Room, Stone offers her his help, assuring her that there are no strings attached despite their mutual attraction. Josie soon realizes that Stone, grieving the loss of his identical twin and repressing anger regarding his own childhood issues, needs her help as much as she needs his. As scandals resulting from both Hollingsworth and Romero family secrets come to light, they lead to terrible tragedies and horrific violence. Josie recognizes that Stone is the one man in the world who will never put her in a compromising position. She prays that it's not too late for them to have the storybook ending that she never imagined would be within her grasp.