One more careless mistake and I could lose the career I've worked my entire life for—I could lose everything. My last year has been wrapped in one scandal after another, and I'm done.

Done with the jersey chasers.

And done with women... for the time being.

Or so I thought.

Sophie Thomas, a local magazine photographer, is my undoing. She's bright, she's funny, and her very being just draws me in. I know I need to stay away, but there's something about her—a sadness almost—that keeps pulling me back to her.

Maybe I'm not quite as done with everything as I once believed.