Two days before Christmas, shy bookstore owner Scotlyn Carter survived a traumatic bank robbery and subsequent kidnapping. Now, three months later, she still wakes up hearing the robber's promise to find her-and kill her. Then James McIntyre, the high school flame whose easy smile and mysterious eyes she could never forget, walks back into her life. As she falls for him once again, Scotlyn slowly begins to feel safe for the first time in a long time and thinks that maybe her nightmare will not come true, after all. But James is not all that he seems. He is back in Scotlyn's life for a reason and has been in contact with the very thieves who kidnapped her. And he's harboring a dark secret that, if brought to light, could not only destroy their relationship-it could end their very lives.