Appalachian Foothills

Pilot Lannis Parker’s carefully constructed, sterile life is upended when her small plane is hijacked before dawn on a wintry Louisville morning. Her captor does more than force her to fly him to the Appalachian wilderness, though. He resurrects memories she’s tried to bury - memories of a brutal attack she’d survived four years earlier, an attack she didn’t report and tries to pretend didn’t happen.

Pilot Lannis Parker has triumphed over her past - or so she thinks. She faces her rapist, then dredges up the courage to bring him to trial and is relieved to see Robert Davis imprisoned. But the closure she’d sought is elusive. Resurrected memories invade her life and threaten to splinter her relationship with those she loves most. Newly married, Lannis discovers she’s as much a prisoner as Davis, shackled by fear and inextricably bound to him through his crime. Frustrated at her descent into the past, her husband tries to understand, but fails.

Sam Bledsoe prefers his reclusive existence. A one-man landscape business keeps a roof over his head and food on the table - and keeps his badly scarred face away from curious eyes. But when a woman faints on her way from neighbor Maggie Ross' house, he doesn't hesitate. He rushes to help while grappling with memories of the incident that burned him so badly.