Chris Kearney is a surgeon working the Emergency Room at a large hospital near the bad part of the city. After operating on and losing a teenaged patient, he runs into Drew Hayden, an undercover vice cop. Connecting over a kid who tried to get out of gang lifestyle and still died, the two men check each other out. When they run into each other at the grocery store, they are more than happy to reconnect and pleased to find that neither of them had read the signals wrong. It’s hard for a cop and a doctor, especially an undercover cop and an emergency room doctor, to find time to meet, date and do all the other things a burgeoning relationship requires, but somehow Chris and Drew manage. Their lives are full and sometimes difficult. Will they get through the traumas and troubles of the first year and a half of their relationship? And, when they get there, what will the other side look like?

Cop Drew Hayden and ER trauma surgeon Chris Kearney have it all, mostly. They are married, have a house with a fence and a yard that needs some attention. The thing that they don't have enough of is time for each other. Drew's career as an undercover cop working gangs and drugs is successful. So successful that Drew's about to go undercover for more than a month without being able to contact Chris at all during what may be a very dangerous operation. Chris is always wound very tightly. Without Drew's calm as a counterbalance, Chris is in danger of falling over. Then, after what is almost Chris' worst nightmare, Chris has to confront the reality of Drew's job. So does Drew; he can't ignore what his current job asks of Chris either. Can they change things enough to keep the most important thing—their love for each other?