Zander Wicked lives everything fast: his bike, his job, and the women who pass through his life. Then a single split second shatters his world and forces him to face truths he has spent a lifetime outrunning. His family doubts he can really change, but Zander is determined to prove them wrong, and his chance arrives through the woman who helped save him. Shauna Flores knows exactly what it means to fight for survival. An EMT and a person in recovery, she has rebuilt her life piece by piece while refusing to give up on a best friend she will not abandon. When Shauna needs far more than a little help herself, Zander steps into a role he never imagined playing: husband of convenience. Set on the sandy shores of Cape Cod, where the Dark Knights protect their own and family means everything, this standalone pairs a reformed playboy with a fiercely resilient woman in a marriage neither planned. Emotional, hopeful, and steamy, it follows two people bound first by circumstance and gratitude, then by something far deeper, as a convenient arrangement slowly becomes the realest thing either has ever known.