All the other girls had a normal childhood, full of Girl Scouts and sleepovers, but Charlie Evans wasn't so lucky. Her life had been spent in and out the Cardiac Care Unit and moving across the country with her military father. So when Charlie finds out she's moving back to her home town, she hopes things will finally be different. She has learned the hard way not to let anyone in. People always let her down, and it wasn’t easy to trust anyone new. That was until Sam Greyson walks into her life and threatens to knock down every wall she’d ever built to protect herself. With Sam in the picture, Charlie decides to take one last shot and open herself up. With Sam’s help, she is finally able to let someone see the real, bruised and damaged girl inside. That is until she is forced to make a decision between her own happiness and ruining Sam’s life to be with him. If giving him up meant he could have a normal life…She would do it, in a broken heartbeat.

For once in Charlie’s life, she has something she'd never allowed herself to have before. Hope. All because of Sam’s love. He fought for her. No matter the cost. He loved her even when she couldn't allow herself to feel loved. Now, when things feel like they might go smoothly for once in her life... The unexpected happens. Her fate. Her constant date with Death. A reality that completely blindsides her when life once again rears it’s ugly head. Shattering any sense of a future she ever felt she could grasp, even if only for a second. Will she give in and surrender to her fate? Will she retreat, pushing away everyone she loves to hold onto her secrets? Or will she fight? Fight for Sam, fight for their love, the way he's always fought for her?