Ruby O'Brien is no damsel in distress.As the owner of Ruby's Lounge, the Capital's best-kept secret, she doesn't follow the rules, she makes them. Few take the risk of crossing the sharp redheaded CEO and those who do, live to regret it. With the help of her UCC friends, she balances her protective nature with her fierce business prowess. Life and the Lounge cohabit in perfect harmony. Until her past comes back to burst her carefully sculpted bubble.Joshua Becker fell in love for the first time at the age of seventeen. When his high school sweetheart cut off all communication on the day he left for college, he decided to move on.He failed.When a business call leads him straight to Ruby's Lounge, his entire life goes up in bright, red, fiery flames