Francesca Marino knew it was a terrible idea to get involved with Grayson White. He’s her best friend’s cousin. He’s older than her. They hung out in the same group, and it would be impossible to avoid him if things went sour…but it was hard to remember if any of those things really mattered when she could practically taste the chemistry between them. Ignoring all the blaring alarm bells, she hooks up with him anyway, and it’s everything she could’ve imagined. Toe curling. Mind-blowing. Life-affirming. Until he gives her the brush off. Determined to ignore her hurt feelings and get past any weirdness between them, she does her best to move on. She’s more than capable of keeping her distance, and she assumes that she’ll stop daydreaming about him at some point. Too bad Gray doesn’t seem to be on the same page. She runs into him everywhere. When a relationship goes sour and Frankie is determined to face the fallout in silence, he’s the only one who notices. And if there’s one thing that Gray learned from the men who raised him, it’s that you never sit back and watch a good woman face a monster alone.