Ryan Cole has spent most of his life carrying the blame for the accident that shattered his family. After learning how quickly love can turn to loss, he built a life where nothing gets close enough to matter. Blaire Hollis has known the opposite. Raised as the adored daughter of a legendary football family, she's spent her life surrounded by people determined to protect her. When Blaire walks into Ryan's world, everything about her gets under his skin. She's smart, infuriating, impossible to intimidate—and the first woman who's ever made him want more than a night. The harder he tries to push her away, the harder they collide, until wanting her becomes the one thing Ryan can no longer outrun. But when history threatens to repeat itself, the life they've begun building fractures beneath the weight of the past. Now Ryan must face the guilt that's defined him for years...and decide whether the ways we break are destined to destroy us—or whether love can survive even the pieces we thought could never be put back together.