Twenty-three-year-old Marissa Scott has had enough heartbreak to last a lifetime. After losing her father in action and her mother from cancer years later, she feels like her whole world has been flipped upside down and is unsure how to make it right. The bills are piling up and she fears she's going to lose the last living memory she has of her mother if she doesn't get her head above water. That is until her knight in shining armor swoops in at just the right time.
Thirty-five-year-old Stefan McAllister has been battling the harsh break-up of what would have been his forever from three years ago. He thought he was going to marry that girl until his world was turned upside down and he couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. That is until his beauty with blonde hair and killer curves walked into his life that fateful day at Campbell's Automotive.
Starting just as friends, Stefan and Marissa's relationship begins to blossom when he finds himself needing a place to stay. With a room available, Stefan moves into Marissa's house and begins to help get her head above water.
Until Stefan's past starts catching up with him in the shape of a skinny, five-foot-eight, ex-girlfriend almost fiancée who thinks she can stick her claws into Stefan, making him hers once again.
With the past looming over Stefan's head, Marissa has to choose between her happiness with Stefan and the future they have planned together, or a future that has Marissa on her own with Stefan back under the claws of his ex.
Can love truly conquer all?