Only a woman with a broken heart can show a broken man how to love.

Tilly Carver is a woman on the run. After a lifetime under the control of her cruel father, she has finally fled.

But running does not mean you leave all your problems behind.

After being saved from a gruesome death while on the run, she accompanies the young Clayton Baxter to his family's home: the Baxter Homestead. But Tilly's troubles are far from over. As Clayton begins to show his true colors as a cowardly, conniving villain, Tilly finds herself thrust deeper and deeper into intrigue and even danger.

Luckily, though, there are people looking out for her. Mrs. Baxter - Clayton's mother and a tornado of a woman - has adopted her as one of the family. Clayton's brother, Adam, loves her like a sister.

And then there is Paul.

A man of mystery, who showed up at the homestead not long after Tilly, he is always there... watching her, protecting her, perhaps even... loving her?

She does not know. No one knows who Paul really is, or where he came from. She only knows that he is the strongest man she has ever known, and the only man with whom she has ever felt safe. She only knows that Paul understands her, because he also is on the run from a past he only wants to forget.

But the past is never really gone. And as Tilly's and Paul's past lives reach out to threaten them once more, they both realize that they can only find safety with each other. They can only find happiness in the arms of someone who understands what they have gone through, and what they have done.

They can only find love if they stop running, and face what is coming... together.