Major Jackie Holmes is a career soldier with nearly twenty-one years of service under her. Returning home from Afghanistan injured makes her evaluate her life. After her husband’s strange behaviour, she realises the only people in her life she can count on to help with her recovery are her twins, her parents, and all the medical teams she finds herself surrounded with. Could a chance encounter with an old school friend turn her life around? As a physiotherapist at a military rehabilitation centre, Carrie Spencer treats all kinds of people and injuries. She just didn’t ever consider running into an old school friend, and end up treating her. In the midst of an abusive relationship, Carrie is struggling to decide how she needs to act to safeguard herself and her boys, Charlie and Richard. Jackie is her bright light in a dark place, and Carrie begins to rely on her friend more and more as she comes to terms with what she must do. Everything comes to a head at a party held at Jackie’s house…the only question is—Will Carrie do the right thing and turn her back on her relationship, or will she follow her lover and suffer more of her abuse? When a friendship turns to more and two hearts beat as one, is it possible for that bond to be torn apart?

Lieutenant Colonel Jackie Holmes and her fiancée, Carrie Spencer, have settled into life with each other and their children. The only black cloud settling over them is the trial for Carrie’s former girlfriend. Neither of them is willing to let their fear of seeing Toni overtake them. Once the court case is over, they’ll never have to see her again. However, things rarely go to plan where Jackie and Carrie are concerned. They once again find themselves fighting for their family. An unlikely hero emerges to help them with the battle for the right to live in peace. Will they be able to beat the evil planning their demise and live happily ever after?