All right. So Jack Thatcher has experienced deep, personal tragedy.

Dr. Sienna Maxwell gets that. But how can the man drop out of life the way he has, pretending to be happy hosting fabulous dinner parties and puttering in his back shed? That’s something she will never be able to understand. Because he is only pretending, right?

Sienna’s a shoot-from-the-hip high achiever

who demands no less from everyone around her. Driven and determined to make her new medical practice – and everything she touches – a success, she wants a whole lot more from Jack than charm and kisses. She wants nothing less than perfect.