Tadhg: After a nasty breakup with my manipulative ex, I returned home to Seattle to lick my wounds. I'm done with relationships. From now on I'm focusing on my career. There are just a few problems with this. One, it's not that easy for a Deaf man to succeed in a Hearing world, even with the right degree and experience. Two, Quinn MacDougall. He's my co-worker. He's also incredibly talented, driven, and distractingly handsome.

Three, he's hearing. And that's the biggest problem of all. Can someone who isn't Deaf ever truly understand and accept me?Quinn: Nothing is more important to me than family, and someday I'll have my own. Well, I will, If I can ever find the right guy. Sadly, I can't seem to make family and romance mesh. So for now, I'm concentrating on my career and getting a promotion at work. That is until my company hires a hot-shot architect with all the right credentials to easily snag the position. I should resent him, but Tadhg Byrne is supremely talented and incredibly sweet.

He's also drop-dead gorgeous. And even though we have a ton in common I can't ask him out. Why? We work together, and that's just a disaster waiting to happen. Plus, there's the communication issue. He's Deaf, my ASL is rusty as hell, and he's just been through a really bad breakup. How could I possibly convince him to take a chance again with me?.