...I live for you. I breathe for you. I will die for you. It. Has. Always. Been. You. No one has ever made Rosie LeBlanc feel more alive than the man who serves as a constant reminder that her clock is ticking. Dean Cole is her forbidden shiny apple. A stubborn fallacy against her blunt raw truth. Because Rosie has an illness. Cystic fibrosis. Sometimes she conquers it but sometimes it conquers her. She knows she s more than her diagnosis but she also knows she will not live a long happy life with it. And the last thing she wants to do is start a relationship she knows is doomed to end in tragedy. Least of all with her sister s ex-boyfriend. But the truth is Rosie saw Dean first. She craved him first. She loved him first. And now eleven years later he s come waltzing back into her life demanding a second chance. He sees her walls and he s determined to smash them down even with his own demons at play. He wants to be Rosie s white knight whatever it takes...but he might just be too late.