An icy medical examiner finds her friendship with a warm cold-case detective nudging her toward a different and unexpected number on the Kinsey Scale. Numbers rule Dr. Mei Sharpe’s life. She has no
husband, one friend, two daughters, and three random meetings with the
same woman within four weeks. Once is chance, twice is coincidence, but
upon the third meeting, even Mei in all her empirical rigidness must
admit that perhaps the universe is giving her a nudge. A nudge that
lands her directly in the path of Lieutenant Morgan Kelly—an affable,
charming detective for the Sheriff Department’s brand-new cold case team
working down the hall from Mei’s morgue.
More golden retriever
than hard-boiled detective, Morgan is determined to pull the asocial
widow out of her shell. As the icy scientist warms to her cheerful new
friend, an irrepressible chemistry develops, and Mei begins to realize
she’s perhaps a different number on the Kinsey scale than previously
considered.
As Mei and Morgan struggle with guilt and grief, drama
and desires, Mei finds her scientific austerity is no match for the
universe and its nudges toward the startling revelation of what her
heart really wants.