Nicole Heartland is a seventeen year old who has had to protect her and her younger brother from her abusive father. Until she's eighteen, Nikki is trapped in a life that she feels like she'll die in. That is until Joshua Hunter strikes a deal with her: he can give her protection as long as she agrees to marry him. So, she does what every seventeen year old who's desperate to escape would do, she agrees. Little does she know that the world she's running to is not all rainbows and butterflies. Joshua Hunter has demons that her father never possessed and a brother that makes everything inside of her melt.