Keeva O’Brien has lost all desire to work for a dream that was never really hers. Keeva’s brother, Luke, was the one who wanted her to go to college, the one who wanted her to be something more than he or their parents. Luke raised her, gave up everything to be there for Keeva after their parents died. But when Luke died, Keeva could no longer see the point. When new bartender, Nash Pierce, begins working at the same restaurant where Keeva works, she has no interest in his charm. All she wants is to forget her grief, to forget that everything that had made her world make sense died in an instant when her brother was killed while fighting for an underground MMA club. Nash is willing to help her do that. Nash is the opposite of the boys Luke wanted Keeva to date. He is a high school dropout, a bartender, a guy with secrets and a past he does not talk often about. Maybe that’s why Keeva is so drawn to him. Nash is a lot like Luke. But Nash’s secrets threaten to come back to haunt Keeva, especially when she learns the truth about the night her brother died...

Keeva O’Brien just found out that the man she has been seeing, the only one who has been able to make her feel alive after the sudden death of her brother, is the same man who delivered the fatal blow in the midst of an underground MMA fight. Keeva cannot reconcile in her mind the man who held her and loved her is the same who took from her the only family she had left. Keeva’s brother, Luke, dropped out of school and fought in the underground MMA club in order to provide for her and her future. Nash took that away from her. But he also gave back, brought her out of the depths of grief and made her feel alive. Keeva tries to stay away from Nash, to make the right choices and to follow the path her brother set out for her. But when she learns that Nash is back fighting in the club, she can’t help but go see him fight. She tells herself she shouldn’t care, but when she finds him beaten beyond consciousness in his home because of a debt owed to the wrong people, she can’t help but interfere. He can’t do it alone and she can’t watch him die the same way Luke did. Luke always told her to follow her heart. But did he mean she should follow her heart and help the man who killed him?