The Surgeon’s Secret

The secret I’m keeping from the most intimidating surgeon in Seattle is a ticking time bomb.

After a devastating betrayal stripped me of my medical license and left me drowning in legal debt, I swore I would never be the smartest person in the room again. I moved across the country, buried my genius, and took a job at the bottom of the hospital food chain.

My strategy? Keep my head down, wear oversized sweaters, and play the vacant, cheerful administrative assistant.

My problem? Dr. Lemuel.

He is the youngest Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the hospital's history. He is a billionaire. He is cold, ruthlessly demanding, and notoriously impossible to work for. He expects me to cry. He expects me to quit.

Instead, I answer his impossible demands with a polite, customer-service smile that drives him absolutely insane.

But when a late-night Code Blue forces me to break character and bark out a life-saving diagnostic order, my cover is instantly blown. Lemuel doesn't fire me. Worse—he traps me in a supply closet and realizes exactly how much heat is simmering beneath my baggy clothes.

Now, the terrifying tyrant of Floor Seven is looking at me like I’m a puzzle he is desperate to solve. The professional lines are blurring, the late-night hospital shifts are getting dangerously heated, and Lemuel’s possessive, alpha-guard-dog energy is entirely focused on me.

Every accidental touch is electric. Every heated argument is a twisted form of foreplay.

But the medical elite is a small world. When the man who destroyed my life shows up in Lemuel’s ward, I have to make a choice: run away to protect the immaculate reputation of the man I’m falling in love with, or finally let Seattle’s most ruthless surgeon fight for me.

Read if you love: The tension of The Hating Game, the high-stakes medical drama of Grey's Anatomy, and a romance where the boss absolutely loses his mind when another man even looks at his assistant.

100,000+ words of extreme tension, emotional damage, and explosive, praise-heavy spice. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.