This is a sentimental and epic story about a young man, injured in the View Nam War, who returns to Dallas, Texas, in 1965, and begins rebuilding his life. Set against the rock and roll era of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, when casual sex and recreational drugs were the norm, two damaged people are thrown together by accident. Returning from a VA hospital in Louisiana, twenty-six year old Carson Chance stops on the interstate to pick up a beautiful seventeen year old female hitch hiker named Amy Warren. He agrees to let her stay in his guest room until she gets on her feet and soon discovers that she is wanted for the murder of her abusive step-father. After Amy’s incarceration she returns to Dallas in hopes of rekindling a relationship with Carson who feels their age difference is too great. She sets out to prove him wrong and their on-again, off-again romance finds conflict at every corner. Carsons own life is threatened when a member of the Chicago mafia tries to hire him to find someone for them. When Carson refuses they use Amy to blackmail him into helping them. Carson barely escapes death again, and his addiction to drugs puts him over the edge and drives a deep wedge between him and Amy, his one true love.

When Carson Chance first laid eyes on run-a-way Amy Warren five years ago, he had no idea that she would open his eyes to life and love again. Carson’s history of PTSD and a gunshot wound broke them apart, but now she is back in his life and attending law school. Carson, desperate to hang on to what they had, struggles with Amy’s new life. When Carson and a rival male law student clash at a local bar, Amy has doubts that Carson didn’t start the fight, and tension between them escalates. Unable to put their dysfunctional past behind them, Amy pushes Carson away. Picking up the pieces of his broken life, Carson returns to his old job at Dawson Investigation. He decides to move from the garage apartment he rents from Amy and finds the ideal place. There’s only one problem: the last occupant was a drug dealer. When a prostitute comes knocking on his door to buy drugs for her boyfriend, she ends up dead. All evidence of the murder points to Carson. As his life unravels, Carson fights for his freedom and Amy, the woman he loves. How will Carson prove his innocence and clear his name? Has he lost Amy forever? Or can they put aside their doubts and learn to love again?