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Dear Reader,

It’s funny how we as writers deal with the characters in our heads. Sometimes we struggle to help them become who we need them to be. Other times, the character bursts onto the page pretty much fully formed and rather demanding. Such was the case with Dr. Allie Hollister. She’s the quiet one of this trio of friends, the analytical one, and some might say the coolest of the bunch. She thinks a lot. Perhaps too much.

A difficult childhood was made worse by the murder of her best friend twenty years ago, but it was the bond she formed with Eden and Simone that helped make her the woman she’s become. Allie’s a fighter, especially when it comes to the people she cares about. When Hope Kellan, one of Allie’s patients, disappears, she finds herself at a bit of a loss. But it’s her unexpected attraction to Hope’s uncle Max that really throws her.

Allie isn’t the only person Max threw for a loop. In my preplotting notes—and pictures—I thought I knew exactly who he was, what he looked like, what his temperament would be. Max, however, wasn’t having it. The hero I’d imagined as a polished, sullen, lost soul of a hero turned into the Max who showed up—quirky, scruffy, with one of those grins that you can’t help but respond to. And Allie most definitely responds. Oh, and so did I.

For the first time in Allie’s life, aside from her two best friends, she finds she has someone else willing to fight for her—and with her. Even better? She has something else to fight for: her own happily-ever-after.

Anna J.