Crash (The Crash Duet)

He used to believe in love. After surviving a major heartbreak, Rebecca Westfeldt has just found the woman she used to be, and all she wants is to get through nursing school. Unfortunately, life seems to have different plans. Enter Dr. Lucian Casteel, a man who threatens to knock down the walls she has built around her heart. As much as Rebecca tells herself to stay away from him, fate has other plans. She thought she’d experienced it. Dr. Lucian Casteel knows what it’s like to have your heart broken. After suffering the biggest betrayal of his life, he’s finally pulled himself back together. Or so he thought. When he meets nursing student Rebecca Westfeldt, she’s like a shot of adrenaline straight to his heart. She’s everything he could ever need and want. Lucian isn’t ready to risk another heartbreak, but he’s got to have her. Until him. When Lucian comes to Rebecca’s rescue not once, but twice and he makes a simple request in return, what starts off as a friendship leads to more. Try as they might to keep their relationship casual, as time goes on both will learn that the best laid plans don’t always work, especially when hearts are involved. As past relationships threaten to overwhelm the future, can they fight the pain of his past, or will Lucian allow the best thing to come into his life to slip through his fingers? Will Rebecca be strong enough to protect her heart from the one man capable of breaking it again?