Sometimes you don't know what you're missing until you find it . . .
He'd witnessed the ravages of war first-hand as a member of the army's special ops, but nothing could have prepared Wes Holden for the senseless death of his own wife and son - or the private nightmare that followed. An empty shell of a man, he is unable to do anything but survive . . . until the day he walks into Ally Monroe's yard.
Raised in the isolated mountains of West Virginia, Ally faces a bleak future caring for her stern widowed father and two brothers. But that doesn't stop her from dreaming that a stranger might walk into her life one day, and transform her lonely existence.
Then, as a special bond develops between Wes and Ally, Wes realises there is danger in the mountains. But far worse, the threat is closing in on Ally, and time is running out . . .