Having discovered that her parents had been brutally murdered at the hands of an unknown assailant that was planning to come after her, Ella found herself being placed under the care and protection of the one man that she didn't need to be close to: Aidan Byrne, the new lead detective for the Lexington police force and her ex-boyfriend that had left her two years in the past for a job out in Los Angeles, California. Aidan kicked himself every day that he had left Lexington, Kentucky for a job offer out in L.A., and breaking the heart of Ella Adams, the one southern beauty that had been on his mind every day. Upon seeing how beautiful she had become, he couldn't keep his desires for her at bay for long. As the passion starts to rise, the danger starts to move in on them both outside the city limits of Lexington, threatening to end any possible future they might have with one another.