**Newly revised copy edit as of 4/9/15**

Kate Frazier wants one night and one night only. It's the only thing she's made for, the only thing she's capable of. She doesn't want any hand holding or cuddling, she wants to get off and then she wants them to leave. She likes her men, bland boring and non-threatening only the Nordic god staring at her from across the pub is anything but. One by one she's breaking her rules for only one night because the moment he gets close she can't help herself.
Only Trey refuses to let it go at one night. He knows her secret the one she's tried so hard to pretend didn't happen, didn't exist even as her nightmares still haunt her. He knows and has her admitting to the rape she suffered from her mother's boyfriend for two long years and he knows about the frantic, ugly things she did with anyone who have her in her teens. He sees it all and it doesn't faze him, he wants the woman she is now and he's not going to let her go.
Now Kate has to make the decision to go through the painful door of her past to the other side where Trey and the happiness she never thought she could know is waiting.

This is a standalone novella at 38,572 words