Two years ago, Jenny Carter chose her career over the love of her life. Her career is soaring and she's on the cusp of her dream promotion. Jenny's too focused to even realize she's missing a key element in her happily ever after. When her ex-fiance Ty Sullivan unexpectedly moves to Seattle, shock is soon replaced by suspicion as he steals her client and threatens her promotion. What Jenny can't deny though, is the way the one man she has ever loved still makes her heart race. For a second time, she'll have to decide if her ambitions are more important than her heart. Worse than the ultimatum he delivered in the heat of the moment, Ty regrets not leaving Boston with Jenny Carter. It took him two years, but now that he's in Seattle, he's determined to win her back, no matter what it takes. He's not surprised she's still holding a grudge, but her seething anger has him wondering how he'll ever break through to her passionate heart. When they fall into old habits, he knows they have to break the cycle, but earning her trust could be the biggest challenge he's ever faced.

For Owen Landry, the world is perfect until he asks his girlfriend Stacie to move in with him. Shortly after she says no, with no real excuse except that his daughter is coming to visit, his ex-wife shows up at his door and starts doing what she does best - inflicting her poisonous ways on Owen's life. While trying to figure out if the one year old his ex left at his door is actually his son, Owen realizes he can't trust anyone and suspects the secrets Stacie is keeping are one more nail in the coffin of their doomed relationship. He turns to bourbon, his abusive father's answer to the problems that test a man and realizes he's more like the man than he ever wanted to admit. Stacie Nightingale wants to move in with Owen, but ten years with the wrong man has her reluctant to take that next step. She has to get past what she refers to as her Armageddon day, the day she was supposed to marry her ex and what would have been the biggest mistake of her life. While the looming date has her distracted, she knows when it passes, so will her feelings of dread and self-doubt. She doesn't want to hurt Owen, but he knows her too well to let her distractions just fade with the twilight. His ex-wife's timing couldn't be worse, and Stacie is forced to face her own demons in order to help Owen fight his.

Infamous for her blocks on the roller derby circuit, Ballistic Miss L rolls with whatever life hands her. But Malinda Locke's fearless demeanor can't keep her wheels turning when she hears those dreaded three words: you have cancer. Having lost her brother to cancer, Malinda feels like her family is cursed. Determined to fight back without anyone knowing, she quickly finds keeping the secret from her best friend, also her brother's widow, is harder than accepting her fate. As Malinda faces life-altering decisions, she starts to rely on her derby friend Dex the Hall. Their attraction is undeniable, but circumstances dictate the relationship remain platonic. A jammer on the men's roller derby team, Declan Hall's as fast on eight wheels as he is to come to Malinda's aid. As a paramedic, he has a vast network to help Malinda learn about cancer and her options. Her reluctance to open her heart has him fighting the demons of his foggy and sordid past. AA helps him handle the alcoholism and spearmint gum staves the nicotine addiction, but not even the reality of cancer can deter the fixation he has for Malinda.

Stacie Nightingale has quit her teaching job mid-year, left her fiance without a word, and moved across country on an impulse. Even more reckless, the aspiring author has had a one-night stand with a man she doesn't even know...a man she discovers is her new neighbor. She soon finds herself in a relationship she neither wants nor wants to give up. Like the lingering effects of the car accident that caused her impulsive behavior, Stacie tries to ignore the way he makes her heart race. What she learns is that some things should never be ignored...or kept secret. Computer security expert Owen Landry has been divorced twice from cheating wives. That alone should make the discharged soldier gun-shy about jumping into a relationship with someone as secretive as Stacie. Owen has always ignored his instincts about women, but this time he's listening to his inner radar. He's ready to leave the past behind and forge a new life...with Stacie. Even though he doesn't like to keep secrets, he's scared his past will make Stacie run. Even if she can look beyond his past, her secrets cause him to question his own heart. Then he realizes she's suffering from post-traumatic stress and a traumatic brain injury that may as well be a ticking bomb. With their future in jeopardy, they find love is the best way to leave the past behind.