When 19-year-old Renee Westhaven is brutally raped, her world comes crashing down around her...especially when she discovers her attacker left pregnant. She worries her new boyfriend will be trapped with her in the never-ending cycle of fear and grief she now finds herself mired within, and does what she can to push him away since her memories of the night she was attacked are but hazy nightmares. Overcoming her objections to walk away from her, Max Harris steps up to the plate and vows to safeguard not only Renee, but her child as well. Years later, after battling with her mental health as she adjusts to life as a mother and wife, Ren gets dealt another crippling blow when her rapist comes looking for her...and the son he never knew he had. Detective Nicholas Spencer has known Renee for years and her attack was the catalyst that pushed him to choose law enforcement as his career. Having witnessed his best friend (and her husband) die to protect Renee, Nick is drawn into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with her scorned potential lover from college to keep her and her son, Dylan, safe. But will Nick's former flame for Ren be enough to prevent another act of stolen innocence, or will her healing process be savagely broken by a monster intent on finishing what he began years before?