Defense attorney, Eve Brady, taken hostage by her drug-dealing client, escapes into deep winter woods. Relief turns to panic when she finds police have branded her a fugitive. She runs from them, vowing to stay free to prove her innocence. But who will fight for her? She trusts only one investigator to push hard enough to get the truth, Detective Bob Milano. If only he wasn't a man she wishes she'd never met. Their history is a chaotic mix of suspicion and confrontation with an undercurrent of attraction, suppressed, and never explored. Would he even speak to her after their last combative encounter? Or would he just slap a pair of cuffs on her? What does she have to lose? With dragnet searches tightening, Eve rolls the dice: find Milano and convince him to help her before time runs out.