Tessa Sharp had it all, a successful career and a fiance she adored. Now she is a woman running from a past that she cannot face. Hiding in a desert town with very few friends and far from her family, alone and struggling to come to terms with her fiance's betrayal and trying to reclaim her life. Steven Pruitt wants Tessa Sharp back, at all costs and he is wealthy enough to get what he wants. He will make her his or die trying. When her past comes calling she will have to find the strength to face it head-on. Tessa must uncover secrets buried long ago to get the help she desperately needs to survive and learn to trust a stranger with her life. But trust comes hard for Tessa Sharp, even harder still to love again. She must learn to do one if she wants to have the other."