To give her mother a proper burial, Becca marries a complete stranger. Three years later, she joins a military base as a doctor, where she meets Colonel Chris—a ruthless battlefield commander feared by enemies, and a man she cannot help but be drawn to.
Both trapped in hollow, loveless marriages, they restrain their feelings, test each other’s boundaries, and dance on the edge of temptation, growing ever more attached amid countless life-or-death rescue missions. When he finally resolves to put an end to his absurd arranged marriage, the name printed on the divorce papers strikes her like lightning: the unseen husband she has never met is none other than him. And she, in turn, is the very wife he has been desperate to walk away from…
