Breaking Down ::On Hold::

It has always been up to Ellie to care for her family, particularly her little brother, Ashton. With an absent father and a alcoholic mother, she's been making decisions for herself and her brother for as far back as she can remember. Now, at seventeen, Ellie's never been out on a date, hung out with friends on a Friday night or even stepped foot out of the house without her brother.

But one night when Ellie walks through the garage to throw out trash for their weekly pick-up, she finds a surprise - a surprise that is wearing an orange jumpsuit and sporting a pair of shiny silver handcuffs.

Cain Marcus is innocent - he swears. But when he's thrown in jail for a crime he didn't commit, he has to escape. Escaping was the easy part, but finding a place to stay where the cops won't find him or the cops won't be called on him is harder than it seems. Until he finds a garage side door that is unlocked in a peaceful neighborhood does he really get himself in trouble with a short, feisty blonde girl.

Before she knows it, Ellie is housing a criminal that constantly calls her 'cupcake' in an alcoholic, dysfunctional house and trying to ignore Cain's impossibly good looks. Simple, right?