When Chelsea Ross rings the doorbell, Mark Bressler is armed and ready. He has already insulted and intimidated several home healthcare workers, and he is sure he can run this one off too. But Chelsea dishes the insults right back and walks on in. She isn't a home healthcare worker or nurse like all the rest who have been sent by the hockey organization. Chelsea is an actress and is only doing this job for the $10,000 bonus the organization promised her if she lasted three months.

Mark had been the Chinooks' star hockey player and team captain until an automobile accident crippled him and almost took his life. He spent weeks in a coma and is lucky to be alive. He is angry about his situation and limitations and is taking it out on everyone.

Chelsea makes it clear to Mark that she is not here to take his blood pressure and pulse rate and see that he takes his medication. She considers herself his personal assistant and sets herself to work creating things to do for him. Mark gives her some embarrassing and menial tasks, hoping she will quit, but she perseveres, constantly reminding herself about the bonus and why she needs the money.

When Mark begins to dream about having sex with Chelsea, he becomes even more determined to get rid of her. But when a dream and reality get crossed up one afternoon as she wakes him from a nap, different kinds of sparks begin to fly between them. A raw animal magnetism draws them together and they just can't fight it. Chelsea tries to keep it "after business hours," although Mark finds that hard to do.

For Chelsea, this passion turns to love, and she realizes she is no longer doing this job for the money. However, Mark is outraged when he finds out she has been promised the bonus. He feels he has been taken for a fool and thinks Chelsea has just been doing a really fine acting job. What will happen now? What choice does Chelsea have?

Return to Seattle and the hockey rink and get reacquainted with old friends Faith Duffy and Ty Savage in this terrific novel about the NHL Chinooks' family of players. Rachel Gibson gives us another romantic masterpiece you are sure to enjoy.