Brooke Merriman's only joy in life has been her ballet dancing. Preparing for the role of her dreams, Brooke moves to North Carolina to dance as a guest artist with the Charlotte Ballet. It is there that she happens to meet Jason Lancaster who is standing in for a photographer at the newspaper. Still privately grieving his wife's death, Jason puts the upheaval of his own life aside to help Brooke when she becomes the victim of a violent crime. What he begins to piece together causes him to suspect that someone very close to her was the instigator of the crime, spawning an even more stunning discovery about Brooke's past--one that has been hidden from her all her life. This book is a riveting mystery and gentle love story about two broken hearts that heal as one.