Whatson Butler lost her family in a tragic car accident when she was fourteen and spent the

rest of her
teen years in foster care. As soon as she graduated high school and gained access to her inheritance, she
left her life in the States behind to reinvent herself in Scotland, her mother's homeland. For the past
four years, she's been ignoring the demons of her grief, while only living for the moment, refusing to
form any genuine attachments. Although a rather lonely existence, her strategy worked well for her
throughout her college years, but now that she's graduated and her roommate has moved to London,
Joss needs to finds a new place to live. She lucks out, locating a cute apartment rooming with a sweet
girl named Emelie, but when she meets Emelie's brother, Tom, he rocks her world and threatens to tear
down her carefully constructed walls.

Tom Carmichael is a wealthy real estate mogul and a man who is used to getting what he wants. From
the moment he meets Joss, he knows he has to have her in his bed, but although her body responds to
him, she proves to be a challenge to win over. Knowing how threatened she feels by attachments, he
carefully constructs a plan that he hopes will slowly tear down her walls and get her to take a chance on
loving someone again. He proposes a sex-only relationship to satisfy their intense mutual attraction,
which Joss accepts, but the stubborn Scotsman is determined to know her down to her very soul and
won't accept anything less. Will Joss run from his love like she usually does or will Tom finally get her to
open up and truly let him into her life?