Solitar Lyonne has learned to survive a harrowing childhood by encasing her heart in a protective shell and avoiding relationships at all costs. Through a horrific twist of fate, she has no family, no one to depend on, and she plans to keep it that way. However, an illegal coca crop, a serial killer she may know, and a dangerous man who is not whom he claims to be that hates her but wants her, all come together to irrevocably change her sad lonely life. But is it for better or worse? A killer of young women who resemble Solitar is on the loose. One more thing Solitar needs to worry about. As a young chief in charge of excavating a gold mine in Ruwenstad, South America, she is about to prove whether or not the mine is polluting the local river when she stumbles across a cocaine drug lord. Her life is threatened and now someone is out to kill her. Kurian Anastaas has his own secrets. He says he's working for the mine, but he is on the sheriff's speed dial. He thinks Solitar is a cold, mean woman. That's the problem, he is thinking about her. Constantly. When the drug lord traps Solitar who had rescued a group of local children he abducted, there's only one person who can perhaps save the day, Kurian. But will he find them in time?