Susan Cross is living her dead father's dream. She is living the life as a successful writer in New York. Susan is content to let others whisk her through life until one fateful day everything in her life changes. A frightening encounter with her boyfriend, Jake, finds Susan escaping to her home in Pagosa Springs, CO. She runs back to the childhood memories and secrets that lay in the dark family home by the river and to Cameron, the man she has loved all her life. Susan realizes she must begin to live the life she always dreamed of in her secret heart. Susan and Cameron's friends are tired of watching the two dance around their feelings for each other. They decide to take matters into their own hands hoping it isn't too late. But the results open fresh wounds, laying bare family secrets long buried, aching to be healed. Susan finds herself fighting for her life in the very place she has taken refuge.