Ace Osprey was born to fly, but a crash stole his wings and left him with scars he refuses to show. Grounded and restless, the former Navy pilot masks his broken pieces with charm and swagger. He lives fast, hits hard, and shows up at Dr. May Smirnov’s clinic whenever a fight goes sideways. He doesn’t talk about the wounds she stitches up, or the heat that’s been simmering between them for far too long. May came to Knife’s Edge to hide, not to burn. The small-town doctor keeps her past locked away, but Ace Osprey is a temptation she can’t ignore. He’s infuriating, magnetic, and far too good at peeling away her walls. Their chemistry is combustible, but in a town where women are turning up dead under the endless summer sun, temptation might be as dangerous as the killer stalking the shadows. When the killer’s attention shifts to May, Ace goes from reckless to lethal. Protecting her means exposing secrets someone is willing to kill to keep buried, and facing the truth neither of them wants to admit. Whatever’s between them isn’t casual. It’s explosive, and it might not survive the fight ahead.