Cassandra Rowan has built her life on being careful.

A respected clinician-scientist and single mother to her perceptive five-year-old daughter, Ophelia, Cassandra knows how to manage risk. As principal investigator of a high-stakes clinical trial, her reputation -- and her future funding -- depend on remaining composed, ethical, and beyond reproach.

She believes in boundaries. In compartmentalization. In loving thoughtfully -- never recklessly.

Then she falls for the one person she cannot afford to fall for: the trial's co-investigator, a man whose steady presence dismantles the rules she's built her life around.

As professional scrutiny intensifies and whispers begin to circulate, Cassandra faces a choice she never expected to make.

Protect the life she has built -- or risk everything for a love that was never supposed to happen?

A thoughtful novel about motherhood, ambition, and the quiet courage it takes to stop living safely.

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• Publication Date: March 27, 2026
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• Print Length: 298 Pages
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