He’s angry and wants to know what happened between them. When Tate wakes up the next morning, Miles confronts her. Tate helps Miles into the apartment as he’s drunkenly weeping and saying the name “Rachel.” She finally goes to bed. Corbin is usually overprotective of his sister, so Tate knows Corbin must trust this man. Miles tells Tate to let him into the apartment. Corbin calls Miles, his friend who lives across the hall, to help Tate, but Corbin realizes the drunk man in the hall is Miles. She calls Corbin while she tries to get into his apartment. Just when she thinks she is in the clear, she heads to Corbin’s apartment only to find an intoxicated man blocking the door and crying inconsolably. She also runs into Dillon on the elevator, a sleazy married man who wants to sleep with her. Tate meets Cap, the outgoing elevator attendant who becomes her best friend. When she arrives at the apartment, Corbin, an airline pilot, is away at work. She plans to live with her older brother, Corbin, in his luxury apartment.

This guide refers to the 2014 First Atria Paperback edition.Ĭontent Warning: The novel contains depictions of explicit sex, emotional manipulation, and violence.Įlizabeth Tate Collins, 23, relocates from San Diego to San Francisco to pursue a master’s degree in nursing while working in the ER as a registered nurse. Through her novels, Hoover explores deeper themes of grief and loss, forgiveness, the effects of trauma, resilience, and domestic violence. Her novels are popular for their incisive, honest, and exciting stories of love that endure despite people’s human flaws. Hoover has redefined the contemporary romance genre through the incorporation of complex characters who face intense emotional dilemmas. She has written many romance novels and romantic thrillers for both adults and young adults, including Reminders of Him (2022), It Starts With Us (2022), Verity (2021), It Ends With Us (2016), November 9 (2015), and Confess (2015). Hoover is a New York Times bestselling author based in Texas.

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