After staring down the wrong end of a gun, not once, but twice, all Patty Harmon had wanted was to have a little fun. She'd spent most her life taking care of everyone else but herself. And while she had a plan for her life, she hadn't yet started to live her life. So, when the aloof, distant, and emotionally unavailable New York State Trooper Reese McGinn takes an interest in her, she's all in...for the moment. When the moment is over, they go their separate ways and Patty can get back to her life plan. But once again, that plan is interrupted when Patty finds herself pregnant. She'll let Reese back in for the sake of the child, but can she keep Reese from stealing her heart?

New York State Trooper Reese McGinn has been haunted by his late mothers' confession and the secret she still took to her grave. For the last seven years, he's done nothing but move from job to job and town to town, vowing never to put down roots. But when his summer fling with Patty Harmon ends with a child on the way, he decides that it's time to forget the past. Only the past doesn't want to forge him, and a deadly secret rises from the grave, threatening to take away everything he thought he never wanted.