I never expected the patient who wouldn't take his shirt off.
I'm Maya Chen, and I thought I'd seen every kind of difficult case walk through my physical therapy clinic. Weekend warriors with fragile egos. Construction workers too proud to admit they're hurt.
But Kieran Blackthorne? He was something else entirely.
Six-foot-three of pure mystery, refusing to undress for examination, flinching away from gentle touch like it might destroy him. The way he moved careful, controlled, like every step caused him pain he'd die before showing. And those eyes. God, those amber eyes that seemed to catch light in ways that made me forget every professional boundary I'd ever sworn to maintain.
I should have referred him to someone else the moment I felt my pulse spike when he walked in.
I should have run when I discovered the massive scars along his shoulder blades surgical scars that looked like something had been deliberately removed.
I definitely should have called the authorities when I realized the "workplace accident" on his chart was complete bullshit.
Instead, I fell for him. Hard. Completely. The kind of falling that makes you question everything you thought you knew about yourself.
Because Kieran isn't just hiding physical trauma. He's hiding what he is. What was stolen from him. What his own family did to him as punishment for loving the wrong person.
And now I'm caught between my oath to heal and my desperate need to touch him, to ease his pain, to prove that not everyone who claims to care will end up hurting him. Between professional ethics and the growing certainty that this broken, beautiful man is my soul's other half.
But when I discover the truth about what he really is and what I'm apparently capable of when someone I love is suffering everything changes.
Turns out some patients don't just need physical therapy.
They need someone willing to rewrite the laws of magic itself.
Warning: This book contains a grounded dragon with trust issues, a healer who discovers her touch can work miracles, phantom pain that's not phantom at all, forbidden patient-therapist attraction that crosses every line, and love powerful enough to make ancient magic sit down and shut up.
Some rules are made to be broken. Some bonds are stronger than reality itself.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
I'm Maya Chen, and I thought I'd seen every kind of difficult case walk through my physical therapy clinic. Weekend warriors with fragile egos. Construction workers too proud to admit they're hurt.
But Kieran Blackthorne? He was something else entirely.
Six-foot-three of pure mystery, refusing to undress for examination, flinching away from gentle touch like it might destroy him. The way he moved careful, controlled, like every step caused him pain he'd die before showing. And those eyes. God, those amber eyes that seemed to catch light in ways that made me forget every professional boundary I'd ever sworn to maintain.
I should have referred him to someone else the moment I felt my pulse spike when he walked in.
I should have run when I discovered the massive scars along his shoulder blades surgical scars that looked like something had been deliberately removed.
I definitely should have called the authorities when I realized the "workplace accident" on his chart was complete bullshit.
Instead, I fell for him. Hard. Completely. The kind of falling that makes you question everything you thought you knew about yourself.
Because Kieran isn't just hiding physical trauma. He's hiding what he is. What was stolen from him. What his own family did to him as punishment for loving the wrong person.
And now I'm caught between my oath to heal and my desperate need to touch him, to ease his pain, to prove that not everyone who claims to care will end up hurting him. Between professional ethics and the growing certainty that this broken, beautiful man is my soul's other half.
But when I discover the truth about what he really is and what I'm apparently capable of when someone I love is suffering everything changes.
Turns out some patients don't just need physical therapy.
They need someone willing to rewrite the laws of magic itself.
Warning: This book contains a grounded dragon with trust issues, a healer who discovers her touch can work miracles, phantom pain that's not phantom at all, forbidden patient-therapist attraction that crosses every line, and love powerful enough to make ancient magic sit down and shut up.
Some rules are made to be broken. Some bonds are stronger than reality itself.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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