A deeply felt enemies to lovers romance, an emotional look at trauma and the slow, thorny process of healing, and a beautiful portrait of friendship and the power of letting people love you for all your bad parts too. There's a lot of messiness in this book but there's a lot of grace too and possibly one of the best confessions of love I've read in ages. I'm not normally super into quiet, brooding heroes but Clayborn brings a complexity and care to Aiden that made me buy completely into his and Zoe's argumentative, affectionate dynamic. I also love the way she writes about friendship and Zoe, Kit, and Greer's deep and loving bond, which for me shines just as brightly as the romance does.