beth venable has seen too much witness to a major mob hit shes placed in protective custody until the trial but after her third safe house is riddled with bullets she goes offgrid to save herself what the fbi cant do her kinfolk willthe beautiful but forbidding appalachian mountains of kentucky welcome beth back dirt roads and rustic shacks a world apart from la but her homecoming even her blissful reunion with strong silent ryal walker is made bittersweet by the fight shes brought to the clans doorstephidden in a remote cabin with the man shes always wanted beth begins to dream of a new life her old one but after so long with such dangers stalking her impossiblebut love can distil life down to its essence an elixir of pure hope nerve and the will to survive