Cyan Stevens is happily engaged to Dominic Steele. They are planning to marry and move to Germany for Dominic's business when Cyan is summoned for the reading of her late aunt's will. The will makes certain demands that Cyan feels obligated to fulfill, and Dominic breaks off the engagement. Unbeknownst to him, Cyan was pregnant with his child. She has a son, but has been unable to tell him. Five years later, Cyan bumps into him and is terrified that, if he finds out about their son, he will take the boy away from her. Dominic also carries a heavy burden—a family secret that threatens to destroy any chance of ever being with the woman he continues to love. As each struggles with their own dark secret, outside forces plot to tear them apart. Can their relationship survive another betrayal, or is their love forever doomed?