Scythe & Sparrow

Doctor Fionn Kane is trying to outrun heartbreak.  After a shattered engagement and a stalled surgical career, he retreats to a quiet town in Nebraska, determined to keep his head down, work hard, and avoid anything resembling romance.  No drama.  No chaos.  Certainly nothing like the life he left behind in Boston.

Then the circus rolls in anyway.

Rose Evans has spent the last ten years performing death defying motorcycle stunts with the Silveria Circus and satisfying darker impulses offstage.  Life on the road suits her.  Roots don’t.  But when a job goes sideways and leaves her with a broken leg, Rose is stranded in Nebraska under the reluctant care of the town’s endearingly awkward doctor.

Fionn is everything steady and careful.  Rose is danger wrapped in leather and gasoline. Neither of them planned on getting close.

But some wounds can’t be stitched shut.  And the longer you stay in one place, the harder it is to outrun the past.

Tropes: Friends with benefits · Small town romance · Fish out of water · Forced proximity · Hurt/comfort · Touch her and die