Zach Fassino is a disability-discharged Army veteran; he still suffers some abnormal reactions to usual conditions. The last Afghani fire fight is still raw in his mind.

Katherine is living under the pressurizing and controlling thumb of her mother, a situation her mother has constructed and placed on her youngest daughter with well concealed intentions.

Katherine helps Zach back into a more social world, while he becomes her knight, freeing her from her mother's yoke of oppression.