Health-care worker Shane has been at Hathaway House since the beginning. Heâs watched patient after patient scratch and claw their way to recovery and has watched relationship after relationship blossom into love and marriage. He believes in love. Wants a true love of his own. Yet he wonders now whether anyone is out there for him.
Until Melissa walks into his gym.
Broken and beaten by life and overwhelmed with endless pain was never part of Melissaâs long-term plan. But a year after an accident sidelined her navy career, sheâs still fighting her way back to a normal lifeâif such a thing exists for the woman sheâs become. Her transfer to Hathaway House is a lifeline to her oldest friend, but, even with Daniâs encouragement, Melissaâs journey back to health is long and hard and maybe just a pipe dream. But sheâll try again. One more time.
Separately, Shane and Melissa have been battling their own personal demons. When they meet at Hathaway House, the tough physiotherapist vows that his newest client will reach successes unimaginable to her. Together, working through her rehab plan, Shane and Melissa find a special tenderness behind each otherâs strength.