There is something to be said for letting go. Ryland Roberts knows that better than anyone. He'd let go of his ambitions, of his family and—most of all—of her. He'd perfected the art of putting his past behind him and accepted the fact that the town he wanted to leave in his rearview was the place where he was going to live out his days. But sometimes the past doesn't just go away. Sometimes it comes back to haunt you. Piper Jameson convinced herself that she left for all the right reasons. She'd saved people by leaving—made sure that they weren't tainted by her rebellious ways. When her little sister asks her to come home and say goodbye to their ailing mother, she's forced to see that things aren't always as they seem. The people who she'd left behind might not have been saved at all. In the amount of time it takes a bullet to travel from point A to point B, Piper and Ryland will have to put their feelings for each other aside and make a choice. Forced on the run with Piper's sister, they begin to understand that the future they thought was gone was never really lost.

Hadley Jameson is ready. Ready to get away from her overprotective family. Ready for a fresh start. And ready to prove to herself that she can live her life all on her own. Columbia College in Chicago is a welcome chance to be the woman she’s become instead of the mess she left behind. She just didn’t expect a face from her past to show up on campus and force her to remember things she's tried to forget. Luke Jacobs has finally made it. A successful software developer well on his way to becoming a multimillionaire, he's put his past behind him and moved on to bigger and better things. But something is still missing. Years of thinking he'd finally be fulfilled if he just got to the top of his game proved not to be true. He is missing one thing and he knows it the moment he sees her. She is much more than the sad, sweet girl he remembers from all those years ago. Despite the age difference or the fact that she isn't looking for love, he can't seem to stay away. She can deny it all she wants, but something about him draws her to him. But the attraction between them is no match for the pasts they are trying to escape.