They’ve dedicated their lives to saving others but can they save themselves? Seventeen years ago they met while doing emergency response work following Hurricane Rita. Maybe it was adrenaline that brought them together maybe it was love but it didn’t matter. It wasn’t meant to be. They lived in different parts of the world. They agreed to share one night then went their separate ways. Dr. Clara Bownton has spent her entire medical career saving people’s lives and she’s always had a soft spot for Texas. But the years of traveling to disaster sites and war zones have worn her down. When she’s offered a job as the Director of Emergency Medicine at a hospital in Houston she jumps at the chance to settle down and tackle a new challenge. She didn’t expect that challenge to be a face from her past. Allen Jeffers thought he’d spend his career in the Army until a sniper’s bullet changed his mind. He headed home to Texas to become a cop instead working his wa