The summer of 1987 is the summer that forever changes sixteen-year-old Alexis Owens' life. It is the summer that she meets the mysterious new boy who steals her heart with just a look—the boy who becomes the man she marries. Her life seems like a living dream until the dawn of the new millennium, when her loving husband unexpectedly walks out of her life and never looks back. For Greyson Campbell it's all about his art. After one year in Mendocino, California to work with an artist friend of his grandfather and then he's off to conquer the art world. It's all that he wants in life—that is until he looks up to see the girl, clutching her beat-up bike, and watching him; he then knows that it isn't just success with his art that he wants. He loves her from that first moment, loves her when he marries her and loves her still when he leaves her, divorces her and breaks her heart. One of the problems with growing up in a small town is being haunted by your past but for Alexis Owens it goes beyond that when her ex-husband returns twelve years after he left. She never got over him, and is as much in love with him as she had been at sixteen; Greyson seems determined to put himself in Alexis' way, forcing her to remember what had been. It's in the remembering, though, that she starts to question the motives behind Greyson leaving. She remembers the disturbing incidents that plagued them throughout their marriage—incidents that culminated in her near fatal car accident that claimed the life of their unborn child. Is it possible that Greyson left her not because he didn't love her but because he loved her so much that he was willing to walk out on their life together to protect her? Answering that question pulls them into a mystery, which is nine hundred years in the making. Can they solve it before the killer finishes what he started more than a decade before?