Dare to Stay

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I left Willow James once.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I won't make that mistake again.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Two years ago I walked away to work for Doctors Without Borders convinced I was doing the right thing.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>All I did was prove she couldn't trust me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now I'm back in Miami as the Thunder's new doctor face to face with the one woman I've never been able to forget.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Willow is sharper than ever. Colder too. She does her job as the team's athletic trainer keeps her distance and pretends my presence doesn't affect her at all.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But I see the way her breath catches when we're too close. How the past still burns between us-hot unfinished impossible to ignore.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Willow tells herself I'm just a colleague.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Until we give in to the physical pull neither of us can deny... even as she swears she'll never trust me with her heart again.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>That's fine. I'm not here for easy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I'm here to regain her trust and to prove I won't leave when things get hard.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Because this time I'm staying.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And if Willow James is my second chance...</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I'm not letting her go.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A swoony spicy second-chance romance packed with forced proximity slow-burn angst and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Perfect for fans of </em><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Carly Phillips</em></strong><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and high-heat contemporary romance with all the feels.</em></p>