Ryker Mathews has gone through shit times. Literally shit times. Beaten. Is a recovering heroin addict. At seventeen she has a baby and she gets robbed while walking and the baby was shot by a man. She went into the army a year after that with her cousin, beatrice and her sister cade. They were both blown up right in front of ryker. She went on leave and when she got home her fiancee was with another girl. She drank away her pain and eventually got alchohol poisoning. She told everyone to tell him that she died. She went back to the army and a bomb went off right next to her and took out her knee and messed up her shoulder. She could not continue with the army.She rented and apartment and went to mechanic school. She got a roomate, craig mabbit, fell in love with him. They got into and argument and he hit her she kicked him out. He kept sending love letters and flowers. she received a letter from him saying turn around. She did and he had a gun to her head and said he will kill her.