Sometimes hiding in the shadows is the only way to protect your heart. . .

Quinn Burnes's mother disappeared when he was only fifteen leaving him with a despondent father, a little sister who suffers panic attacks, and eight notebooks containing the truth about his mother. He guards this secret for eighteen years, until on an otherwise normal day, his mother re-enters his life, pleading for his help. She's in danger and the only thing that can save her is reclaiming the identity she shunned years ago.

Quinn is the master of emotional detachment, from his successful career as a personal injury attorney to his strings of meaningless relationships. When he meets a mystery woman who is on the run from an estranged husband she shot and may have killed, he is drawn to her. But can he risk his heart for someone who is doing exactly what his mother did eighteen years ago? Someone who may ultimately leave him, just like his mother?