Violet Hayes's life is a mess. Between her stalker, Preston, refusing to leave her alone, her parents' case still being unsolved, and falling behind in school, she always feels on the verge of losing it. When some unexpected news comes her way, it's the final straw and she ends up doing something that almost costs her life. Thankfully, she survives and makes a promise to herself to put her life back together and to try and figure out exactly how she feels about Luke Price, the one person that's always there for her.
But as a recovering alcoholic and gambler, Luke has his own struggles to overcome. He's also fallen in love with Violet, but fears telling her the truth, that it will scare her away or worse, she won't reciprocate the feeling. Plus, there never seems to be a right time to say it, either the case, Preston, or life getting in the way.
Can the two of them ever get enough peace in their lives to conquer their fears and finally tell each other the truth about how they feel?
After being the "girl whose parents were murdered" for most of her life, Astrid Axelsen was finally able to leave that behind when she moved to New York but with her parents' 15th anniversary coming up, she is forced to go back to her hometown. Part of her is excited to see her father's best friend, uncle Adam and her best friend Cecille but she is definitely not ready to see Wesley or his beloved girlfriend. However, that seems like the least of her problems when she meets a man that looks almost exactly like the man who murdered her parents and the news he brings with him are not that uplifting.