The Price of Pride

Julia Smith is a fiancée by contract, a student determined to carve out a future of her own, and the only woman capable of defying the coldness of high society. Walter Callahan is a brilliant, possessive pediatric surgeon with an unshakeable reputation, whose picture-perfect city life begins to unravel when forced to share a luxury penthouse with the young Texan woman he bound himself to protect. What began as a family arrangement forged on the Red River ranch rapidly turns into a dangerous power struggle set against glass high-rises, hospital corridors divided by envy, and the lingering shadow of an unresolved past. Between emergency shifts, jealous battles, professional crossroads, and a scorching physical attraction neither can resist, they will discover that the distance between hatred and total surrender is measured in a single heartbeat. When wounded pride weighs heavier than words and fate threatens to tear their lives apart in a split second, will they be able to tear down the walls of their past to save the only love they can never give up?