prologue

Eight years ago, Selene Arlow was left with blood on her hands and betrayal carved deep in her chest. A single night tore through her world-leaving her with a shattered friendship, a silenced truth, and the boy who once called her Moon walking away without a word.

Now twenty-five and a rising trauma surgeon, Selene doesn't flinch under pressure. She's calm, brilliant, and emotionally untouchable. Until Damon Rowe, now a risk consultant sent to audit her department, appears in her hospital like a ghost from a version of her life she swore she buried.

He's just as cold. Just as unreadable.
And just as dangerous to her as he was then.

They haven't seen each other since the night everything went wrong-when someone nearly died, a secret was buried, and love turned to silence.

But fate doesn't care about clean breaks.

Thrown into forced proximity in a hospital full of rules and reputations, Selene and Damon find themselves tangled in professional tension, sharp-edged sarcasm, and the kind of chemistry that never really died. As old wounds reopen and buried truths claw their way to the surface, they must finally confront what really happened that night, and who walked away from whom.

Because silence never forgets.
And some betrayals don't stay buried.