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Six years after trading in his combat gear for hospital scrubs, Luke Rafferty is faced with things just as heartbreaking as those on the battlefield. The abused children being brought in by the pretty redheaded social worker tug at his soul like nothing he’s ever known.

For Devon Manning, being a social worker is a rewarding job, but also a constant reminder of her own troubled youth. Devon takes everything one day at a time—unable to form a relationship with anyone except the children she rescues.

When Luke meets Devon, he thinks he might have found what he’s been looking for, but in order to get the life he wants, Luke has to break through Devon’s emotional barriers and make her realize that his healing touch might be just the complication her life needs…


If you like a fast paced book peppered with suspense and romance and a touch of fear…. then you’ll enjoy this story. This is the first book I’ve read by Shiloh Walker and I did enjoy it.

I enjoyed pulling for the relationship between Luke and Devon and felt the struggles they both faced due to their pasts and watched them both grow stronger as a result to the horrible things each faced in their pasts and present lives. The story didn’t delve too deeply and get to graphic with things, which was good. I never like reading about brutality that some people face and if I wanted that, I’d just turn on the news.

I would pick this book up and read it again down the road and will be on the look out for other books from the author.