Caleb Bizzle was a private investigator. A brief encounter with the woman of his dreams doomed him to love her forever.
He didn't know very much about her except that she was frightened and that he loved her. She made him swear not to come after her until she called for him then she walked out of his life. Now, six years later, he learns that she wants to see him. He is devastated when he arrives at her home.
What had she endured? Why did she wait so long to contact him? Not, until he finds a journal kept by the murdered school teacher does he gain insight into her life and what she suffered at the hands of, Thomas Will.