by Helen Hardt
First published 2025
Angie Simpson sits in the anatomy lab, trying not to flinch at the cadaver before her. She has left her family's ranch in Western Colorado to pursue medical school, determined to forge her own path away from the Steel family legacy. Her professor, Dr. Jason Lansing, watches from across the room with barely concealed bitterness. A car accident destroyed his surgical career and took something even more valuable from him. Now he teaches eager first-year students who possess what he lost forever. When Angie mentions her interest in psychiatry, Jason dismisses the field entirely. Yet something about this quiet rancher's daughter breaks through his carefully constructed walls. A moment of weakness leads to a kiss in the empty lab, awakening feelings Jason believed were dead. But the student-teacher boundary stands between them, and Jason's buried trauma threatens any chance at healing.
Genres: romance, medical, contemporary-romance, academic
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, student-teacher
Setting: Western Colorado, Anatomy Lab
Period: Contemporary
304 pages · Paperback · Waterhouse Press LLC
Content warnings: medical-trauma