Mary grows up in a wealthy family in Los Angeles with nothing missing. When she's 16 and starting her second year in high school, something unexpected happens. On her way home from school, an unknown kidnapper forcibly gets her into the car. It will take her several thousand miles to Miami 4428 km. The police are starting to look everywhere for her, but in vain. First, he's unpleasant and mean to her. He ties her to a heater without food or water, punches and ridicules her. But when they spend over a year together, the police stop looking for her and pronounce her dead. Her mother will go crazy about it and stay on pills for the rest of her life. Suddenly the kidnapper changes his mind and starts treating her kindly. He's no longer tying her to the heater, hitting her and the like. He even asked her about family and the past. He's starting to fall in love with her. Mary just wishes she could come back home. She doesn't know where she is and how long and far from home she is. That's not what the kidnapper wants to let her do. They soon start dating, and Mary is having a baby after two years. He's already allowed to go out normally among people. When their baby is born, Mary wishes to go home for at least a brief visit. Since the kidnapper loves and trusts her, she will be allowed home, but on condition that she goes too. When Mary returns to her native Los Angeles after three years, police reopen the case. Parents are happy to have their daughter alive and happy for the baby. Police will arrest the kidnapper and want to question him in court and arrest him for life. But Mary turns the truth around and says she left the house voluntarily herself to save her child's father. After the trial, when the kidnapper is set free, Mary and the baby and the kidnapper go back to Miami, where they live happily ever after. Mary still goes to visit her parents.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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