Aria Breaniann was in the middle of another busy 36 hour shift when the storm hit the hospital. Well not a 'storm' exactly, what blew into her hospital wasn't weather related. More the 'van drives by and dumps a bloody mess in the doorway' kind of thing. A very big, very full of holes, most likely human bloody mess. That's how Aria met Gareth, with him looking at her with one almost swollen shut eye and gasping blood out of his mouth and nose and her screaming "I NEED A STRETCHER AND A CRASH CART STAT PREP SURGERY " Gareth Fionnlagh is head of investigations at the city's most well-known as well as secretive company, Genie Strategique, rumored to be run by 'ghosts' and one of the scariest women Aria has ever seen. Unfortunately their employees tend to end up in her emergency room often, too often, the big man bleeding out in front of her more often than most. What she doesn't know is that the reason why she is so busy with bullet wounds and surgery (ironically only when she is on shift) is because Gareth spends all his free time, and the free time of some of his team protecting her. Literally. Every. Single. Day. He's fiercely protective of her and loves her to distraction, but she is driving him nuts with her utter lack of concern for her safety. She's a medical engineering genius who has several products patented which would leapfrog the medical field decades forward instantly... If only she could find a sponsor willing to fund prototypes to test and manufacture- at cost and for no profit... The issue is, a lot of people want her designs and technology and intelligence but no one wants to pay anything for it and so without her knowledge Gareth has stopped so many attempts on her life, and kidnappings he's lost count. Tonight, he wasn't as lucky as he usually is though and underestimated a new threat, Maxwell Dynamics, who have been following her. Tonight they made a move, they broke into her apartment, stole everything that was paper and that had any type of memory card in it-including a video picture frame of her recently deceased parents. He had gotten the call just after 2 am when one of his team he assigned to guard her home witnessed the break-in, but was too late in getting there to stop it or the near fatal beating his best man took. What he didn't realize was that the people who were responsible for it all were still in the area and that they had circled back to finish things. Seeing him standing over the guard, they shot Gareth repeatedly until he dropped just as the rest of his team was arriving on scene to help. Doing the only thing they knew would give him even a remote chance of survival they pulled him into the van and rushed to the hospital they knew Aria worked at, literally dumping him at her feet while still pulling into the lot as she was stepping outside for a break. That was the night her life as she knew it was over, and reality was forced in on her as she came to realize from accounts from his team, the badly beaten guard (who she never even knew stood watch over her home) and the category 5 hurricane who practically forced her way into the OR room screaming "DAMN YOU THIS IS YOUR FAULT ," none other than the cold and previously thought unflappable security director of Genie Strategique. Turns out Aria was the only one oblivious to the fact she was under constant guard and protection, and her naivete could cost 2 men their lives tonight if not in the uncomfortably near future... Life's about to get a bit more interesting for her, in many more ways than she could begin to imagine. Follow Gareth and Aria in this prequel to the series to see how that fateful night and the weeks after unfold, how she came to be not just a much needed and extremely highly skilled addition to the company but also how they both become vital to each other's survival emotionally and physically. The 'Red Angel' who saves whomever she comes across, and her ' Knight in Tarnished Armor' who will"