Pass Slowly

Dr. Jackson O’Neil was a decorated Captain in the United States Army, and a well-respected doctor and talented surgeon who had a reputation with the ladies. He kept friends close, but always at arm’s length; women were disposable, his mother was the only woman he respected; and he had been called stubborn and incorrigible more than once. His life was exactly where he wanted it to be... 

That was until an order barking woman rode into his E.R. with her finger knuckle deep in the chest of a victim of a hit and run. But this woman just wasn’t a bystander who happened to be at the wrong place at the right time. 

No. 

This woman was his new boss. 

The temporary Chief of Surgery at North Seattle General teaching hospital wasn’t what anyone was expecting. Dr. Max Taylor was a talented, passionate, and mysterious young woman. She had traveled the world volunteering in some of the most poverty-ridden places on earth, and was always on run, never staying in one place for more than a passing moment. Max was from a family of talented surgeons and doctors, but she could never please her mother who was hell-bent on finding her traveling daughter a husband and stationary life: two things Max vowed would never happen, so she ran. 

But as she found out, you couldn’t run forever. 

For the second time in their lives, Jackson and Max’s paths have crossed, only now there wasn’t a war between them and they had a chance for a future together, if only he could convince her to pass slowly.