I'm Noah Spencer.
I always knew I was going to play professional football. I always thought I'd marry my high school girlfriend and have a big family. But I never expected to be a widower by the time I was thirty.
Losing my wife nearly destroyed me. Now, all I have in my life are my friends and my football career. Focusing only on playing the game is how I survive each day.
Surviving would be a hell of a lot easier if my mother would quit nagging me about moving on. So when she promises to let up if I talk to her priest friend, I agree.
After all, I know the truth. I'm not looking for answers.
No one's going to fix me.
I'm Alison Wakely.
I had a crappy childhood and a rocky adolescence. Education and medicine were my only true passions, the only constants I could count on, until I met a man who changed everything for me. For the first time, I could imagine a happily ever after—and even though part of me didn't dare believe my luck had changed, I was finally ready to trust love. To embrace hope.
I was an idiot.
Now I'm starting over in a new place with a new job. I still have medicine to fill my days, even if it leaves me with long, lonely nights.
Finding a new therapist and meeting with her is just part of my daily survive plan. I know even the best doctor can't change my past or give me a real future.
No one's going to fix me.