The truth is free...but a lie can cost you everything. One lie leads to another. Before long the web of deceit has grown. The truth becomes buried deep. Nikkia Miles thought she had managed to get her life together. She moved beyond the past, and with love in her eyes she was looking forward to her future with Matt Collins. Her children were happy, her salon opened and was doing well, and she was soon to be married. Life was golden...until she had found out her relationship had been based upon a lie. Matt Collins knew the day would come when he would have to atone for the wrong he had done. During his life, he had done plenty. But what cut him to the core, what pained him the most, had been hurting his woman. He had been a man torn; now it was time to pay up. And the price might very well be equivalent to his life. With their future looking bleak, Matt can only concentrate on the present. Nikkia has no choice but to trust in Matt and his abilities. As tempers flare, bullets fly and blood spills. Their lives are on the line...but so are their hearts.