District Attorney Max Black's life takes an unforeseen turn when he discovers the intruder he kills in his home is a childhood friend he sent to prison Jada Parker spent the first thirteen years of her life in foster care until Max shot and killed her father. Max's chance to redeem himself and the memories of his lost friend is rekindled when he moves the teenage girl into his home and raises her as his own. Now in college, the young woman weaves the stories told to her by Max, her father's correspondence while imprisoned, and the pages of her journal into a story spanning twenty years of loss, love, and hope.