Dr. Queena Fulton has no interest in complications. Her career is demanding, her schedule is hers alone, and she has long since decided that love is a risk not worth the inconvenience.

Brandon Alridge isn't looking for forever either - just something easy. No expectations, no entanglements, nothing that asks more of him than he's willing to give.

A single message on a dating app was supposed to be the start of something uncomplicated.

It wasn't.

What follows is a story of two fiercely independent people who get exactly what they didn't know they were asking for - tested by jealousy, by distance, by a crisis that arrives without warning, and by the terrifying discovery that the safest thing either of them has ever done is fall in love with the wrong person at exactly the right time.

A love story for anyone who's ever told themselves they didn't need one.