Kate Rowell is a young and studious girl with a tortured past who falls for Gabriel Perez, a handsome and popular outgoing football player. Soon, her feelings for him are reciprocated. While she is doing everything to stay in the shadows of safety, he is not willing to let her hide. She's always known how to be good, but she can't help but give in to his pleas as their young love blossoms from innocent to mature. She loses all control of her body, heart , and soul to him as their relationship grows through high school to college. Her heart is shattered when he decides abruptly that they have reached the end of the road. Will all her dreams of love, marriage, children, and happily ever after ever come true? ...