Growing up, Daisy James learned the best way to survive was to remain quiet. Though it's been years since her living nightmare came to an end, she's beginning to worry what happened may catch up to her. At the fresh age of eighteen, with a newfound independence, she hopes to close the chapter of her past and move forward. And then she meets him. Twenty-year old Ryder Holmes, a man with a million-dollar inheritance and an alpha male personality. He defines the term likable asshole. He's not living to make friends, much less fall in-love. It soon enough becomes apparent to Daisy that she's not the only one grappling with lingering scars from the past; luring her into him. What happens when they watch the other's life spiral out of control?