What We Break (The Breaking Duet Book 1)

I've been a travel nurse for a decade. I'm really, really good at leaving.But at thirty-two, I'm tired of being a ghost in other people's lives. So I do something crazy. Crazy for me at least. I take a permanent job in Oregon. I buy throw pillows. Plural. I have a fiddle leaf fig I talk to like it's a patient.Then I meet Reid Garrison.He's chaotic sunshine in a paramedic uniform and before I know it I’m swept up in him. He's the golden retriever boyfriend I never knew I needed.For the first time in my life, I'm not counting down the days until I leave.There's just one problem. Six-foot-three of a problem.Blake Moore is Reid's best friend and roommate. His military brother. The man who saved his life.He's also cold, closed-off, and convinced I'm the worst thing that ever happened to Reid.Every dinner is a minefield. Every conversation is a test I'm failing. The man looks at me like I'm a problem he can't solve.But here's what keeps me up at night.Sometimes Blake doesn't look at me with hate. Sometimes he looks at me like being near me is physically painful.I'm a nurse. I know what suffering looks like.And the way my heart stutters when our eyes meet? The way I catch myself wondering what broke him?That's not supposed to happen.I fell for the sunshine. So why can't I stop thinking about the storm?Author Note: This is book 1 of The Breaking Duet, a Why Choose romance, and leaves our heroes and heroine in a not great place. I promise they’ll ALL find their way back to happy in book 2. Please hang in there! Read more