Joe Blackshaw has spent the last twenty years protecting and helping others with the family security company. Now, he's ready to enjoy a peaceful retirement. It's his time to decompress and figure out who he is, to stop being the job. Disappearing into the wilderness to find some kind of calm, something to help him make sense of the life he's lived, he finds something else. Someone else.The line Joe crosses is a line he can never uncross. A line he can't deny. A line he didn't even see.Veronica Holloway is running from an abusive relationship and a cheating fianc . As she runs to the family cabin in the wilderness to find the courage to stand up to her senator father, she finds something else. Someone else. Dragged into a fight to save her life, Joe thinks he's lost it all while finding the one thing he never knew he should ever have.