It wasn't a love bug Dr. Mallory Russell was looking to cure when she stepped into the Philadelphia General E.R. that day. But that's exactly what she was bitten by when the notoriously gifted-but-cold pediatric surgeon Bradley Clayton suddenly started to thaw. Seemed all it took was a life-and-death struggle with a drug-addicted patient for him to notice her....

But both doctors had a closetful of secrets and hurts, and neither Mallory nor Brad wanted to reveal their closely guarded heart to the other. However, their paths crossed again and again. Both of them yearned for each other emotionally...and physically. This need was enough for now. But was it a strong enough basis for the future?