Anne has spent her whole life fighting-fighting the cruelty of the home that raised her, fighting the shadows that haunt her sleep, fighting to build a future that is truly her own. When she finally escapes the suffocating grip of her past and begins a new chapter as a financial manager, she believes she is stepping into the light at last.
Then she meets Sam.
He is everything Anne never expected-powerful, proud, impossible to read. Their relationship begins with conflict and collides into a love so intense it threatens to burn them both. Sam becomes her refuge and her storm, the man who holds her together and the man who shakes her world apart. With him, Anne discovers passion, fear, safety, and heartbreak-often all at once.
Just as she learns to trust the fragile happiness she has built, life delivers its cruelest blow. A child to protect, a love to salvage, a body beginning to fail her. Anne's strength is pushed beyond anything she has ever endured, and the woman who once survived everything finds herself facing the one battle she may not win.
