Olivia swore the day she put her daddy in the ground that she was never going back. Home. But when her perfect marriage to the seemingly perfect mate implodes dangerously, she heads to the only place that can harbor her. Home. Brenson Hayes NHL hockey phenom has returned to his parents house to nurse the remainder of his concussion. Exhausted and dejected, Brenson wakes to be faced with the woman who somehow managed to scare herself more than she scared him, and in the process decimated his heart. Olivia McAndrews. Black and adopted by a white family. Olivia McAndrews. His sisters best friend. Olivia McAndrews. The woman who took off, married a millionaire with the right color skin, but Brenson feared, the very worst intentions. Olivia McAndrews-Spaulding. The last time he found her swimming laps in his parent's pool she'd been about to bury her father. But time has only refined her art of perfect deflection. Will she trust Brenson with the ugly truth about her marriage, or will she assume as she always has that he can never understand? And if Brenson can persuade her to take a chance on him, will it be too much for Brenson to handle, or will he show Olivia his simple truth, that he's been there all the time?