Claudia might have forgotten Toby Faye, once a moody kid who sat in the back of class, if it weren't for the tragic events surrounding his family. In their small town, the Faye name was infamous.

When a job offer throws Claudia into Toby's world and that of his widowed mother, she struggles to ignore a growing attraction to the darkly mysterious mass of muscles and head-turning man that Toby has grown into. Despite Claudia's attempt to stay away from Toby, his blue-gray eyes expose a need her heart cannot ignore.