They say you shouldn’t fall in love with your brother’s best friend, but I knew I was already too far gone when it came to Colton Adler.

A man too busy to consider a relationship with me, I knew my dream of us being anything more was simply a fleeting dream.

When tragedy slams into our life two days before the grand opening of my brother and Colton’s restaurant, I can feel the cracks begin to widen in our newly fractured lives.

Colton’s worry about the success of his new business starts to wear on him. Deciding to ignore every instinct in me to keep him at a distance, I offered to help. When he was quick to accept, I was left wondering if maybe he’d felt the same way.

Bonded in our grief, Colton and I started to grow closer. And somehow that led us to forging a secret of our own. A secret that seemed to mend those cracks.

At least, temporarily, if not forever.