Jade Davis has experienced a lifetime of loss. After years of keeping almost everyone at arm's length she becomes the target of a stalker. Jade reevaluates her career choice and leaves her only friends to start a new life. Leo Blackbird left his native North Carolina after the death of his wife and child. As an art teacher in a small school district in Southern Illinois he has content but no one has tempted him until Jade Davis becomes the new special education teacher across the hall. The attraction between Leo and Jade is impossible to ignore and they become involved. But Jade's stalker is not done with her yet.