There's Always Hope

Have you ever experienced forbidden love? It's sad, difficult, imperfect, and most of the time destroyed before they can even have a fighting chance.
There's always hope that they make it in the end, for hope is a beautiful thing one can have.
It helps us look forward instead of backward, it fills our heart with possibilities that one can only wish happen.
Hope is something Serenity Brighton held onto with every fresh breath she took.
For her love was forbidden, and this was something she fought for deep inside her kind, beautiful heart. Serenity Brighton was from a high class family, her father a very well-known business man and set on Serenity marrying a wealthy man of his choice.
He had yet to find this wealthy husband for her and Serenity fretted the day he did. Serenity had other plans; she was madly in love with a middle class boy named Bryce Stratton.
At seventeen Serenity knew in her heart love should never be forced; it should be found and cherished.
She believed their love could blossom into sweet eternity if only her father would allow it. But her father had no patience to listen.
Bryce suddenly disappears, Bryce hires this guy named Gregory to watch over Serenity who also happens to be the man her father wants her to marry even though he knows she's in love with Bryce.
Gregory and Serenity share a kiss but Serenity regrets it when Bryce finds out and runs off. Serenity and Bryce talk it over and she goes home only to have a dream about Bryce warning her to run.
What did Bryce do that's so bad that he had to flee and hide, and why do these men want to kill Serenity, his one true love?
Will Serenity ever see Bryce again?