Sometimes the broken things are the most exquisite…It certainly holds true for Chastity Davenport, my newest patient. My beautiful, broken little doll. Healing her comes naturally to me… almost as natural as the urge to break her all over again once I finish piecing her back together.

Forced to meet with the school counselor, Dani finds him chipping away at the walls she’s built around herself, and even her heart. Lachlan Taylor doesn’t know what to make at first of the broken student he’s tasked with helping. She’s survived a trauma he’s not sure he can save her from, but he knows he has to try.

Willow Taylor lives in a castle with large walls and iron fences. It’s called Heartstone Psychiatric Hospital and it houses forty other patients. It has nurses with mean faces and techs with permanent frowns. It has a man, as well. A man who is cold and distant. Whose voice drips with authority.

Dr. Leo Chastain is a mouthwatering distraction. For that reason alone, I'm inclined to play his game. He doesn't know I'm incapable of emotions that come naturally to others... I might be a sociopath. I warned him my kind of broken can't be fixed. That the harder he pushes, the harder I'll push back.

The nightmares find me. They steal my breath, slowly suffocating me. I’m scared. I want it to stop. He’s supposed to help me. Instead, he evokes something forbidden. I know I should run. But I can’t. I’ve made my choice. I want him. There's only one problem... He's my therapist.