Kai Morgan is the hockey captain everyone envies but no one really knows. Ten years after a car crash took his parents and his identical twin, he still wears his brother's hairstyle, chases exhaustion on the ice, and treats every woman like a distraction from the pain. He trains harder than anyone, lets no one close, and keeps his heart locked behind a wall he has no plans to lower. Damaris Fisher, the coach's daughter, comes home after two years of failed employment with no plan whatsoever, to figure out what she wants from life. She takes on a temporary job for the team her dad coaches after he suggests it to her. She was supposed to be off limits. He was supposed to be a distraction. Instead, she sees straight through him, and he becomes the one thing she can't walk away from. She's a risk he can't afford but also can't stop the growing feelings he tries so hard to ignore. Now they'll have to navigate through a secret romance, without it getting in the way of their work. But love isn't easy when the heart is still bleeding. Through secrets, scandals, betrayals, and a breakup that nearly destroys them, two guarded hearts must decide whether they're brave enough to stay together and pull through.

Ezra King learned early that love comes with a price, so he stopped paying it. He just took what he wanted and left before anyone could leave him first. Now he's a billionaire, owner of the fastest growing tech company in the country, running from a past that still owns him as he drowns himself in work and women. Until he meets Carissa, his new private Chef whose presence unravels him. She sees straight through the armor he's spent a lifetime building but she refuses to either fix him or flee from him, which unsettles Ezra more than either would. He sees a woman who has never once needed anything he could buy.Carissa Davis, a young talented Chef in urgent need of money to pay off the mortgage on her parents house seeing as her dad is too proud to admit his need for help. She took the job in Ezra's mansion to help her family. She told herself she would just do her job and stay away from her charming boss. But she was wrong. Something deeper than she could understand draws her to him.She's terrified, way more than she'll admit, because wanting him means risking the one thing she's always protected; Herself.Between his hunger for a love he doesn't believe he deserves and her fear of being consumed by a man she can't save, something neither of them choose starts to grow.He'll have to stop running. She'll have to stop rescuing. And both of them will have to face the need for grace, more than either has ever given anyone.