Crossed Stars, Steel Edges Kathleen Helle

He was once a detective in a large city, one of the city's finest. He was driven away from what he knew and those he loved by a unrelenting secret that gnawed at him night and day, forcing him to run away to a pretend world where no one questioned his existence or validity. His reality was horrible nightmares and guilt for not going after the people who killed his partner and left him struggling to keep his secret at whatever the cost. He had a Star on Hollywood Blvd. now. She was also a crack detective on the same department where his existence was shattered. His past was her present. She was anxious to get back out on the street and find the scum that killed her partner and left her in a state of horrific nightmares and hallucinations both day and night. Both deceived by partners they trusted. Neither knowing why. She unknown to he, he unknown to she. Both brought together by one of their tormentors and sentenced to death by their previous tormentors. He afraid to be near her made him cold and aloof yet he felt sorry for her. Somehow she was waking up the emotions that he had kept buried for all these years. She falling in love with him and fighting it. When she found out that he had a past that was equal to her's she got him to admit what he had never admitted to anyone. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Crossed Stars, Steel Edges (Kathleen Helle)