Can love save them from themselves? Esme was dealt the cruelest of hands. Forced to watch helplessly as her family died one by one by the fever that swept through their town with a vengeance. She waited for it to claim her but when it skipped over her she had to escape. She had to get as far away as she could or her heart would never heal from the pain. But fleeing brought her deep into the mountains and into a darkness she’d never known… Dr. Luther Hodgkins had tucked himself away from the rest of the world, locked in a fortress of isolation of his own making. Once, he’d had it all. He’d been fresh out of medical school determined to save people only to find the painful truth - there were some things medicine couldn’t stop. No matter what he did, the fever robbed him of his patients and his faith in medicine so he ran away to a place where nothing could find him. But then she came screaming into his life and saving her became the only thing that mattered…until she started to save him.