Realizing she's spent the last few years funneling all of her time and energy into her career, a career that is now under the microscope for looming cuts her her university, Dr. Naya Turner decides to give some harmless flirting a chance when she meets a cute stranger at a local bar. What is one night of testing her limits?

But this cute stranger turns out to be kind of her perfect match, but also someone who holds the fate of her department in his consultant company's hand.

As Jake and Naya flirt with becoming something more, at the risk of her career, Naya's abusive ex also threatens to upend any progress she made healing from her emotional and physical scars.

An emotional romance, be prepared for all the feelings. I loved Naya and wanted to wrap her in clouds.

CW: domestic violence, in the past and present, gas lighting, physical assault, emotional abuse.

Thank you to Netgalley for the advanced reading copy.