Our attraction was undeniable. Our chemistry red-hot. Would we break our self-made rules and let passion seal the deal?

I had no faith in love. As a high-flying, bosshole, billionaire divorce attorney, I knew from both personal and professional experience that almost all perfect affairs ended in expensive disasters. But the way the attractive graduate student, Maddie McComber, caught my eye at a Harvard Law School event, if I didn't know any better, I would think I fell in love with her at first sight. If I even believed in that sort of thing.

Befriending her later at the Irish pub she worked at, with pressure from my Irish mother, had me totally hooked. Despite our age difference, Maddie was everything I desired, even though my heart remained mired in a vow from a painful event in my past.

I long ago swore an oath to stay single, and she didn't need any distractions from her studies. So why did we break each other's rules, heading toward something that looked like happily ever after?

Read This Is Fate, the steamy standalone romance in the Fated Loves contemporary romance collection by USA Today Best-selling Author, Zee Irwin.