Drake Prins held his army buddy Jim as he died in Afghanistan, and carried Jim's last request home with him like a wound that wouldn't close. Watch over my wife. He arrives at the Carruthers ranch wounded, guilt-ridden, and wholly unprepared for Beth — quiet, guarded, grieving in ways she won't talk about. Drake is a soldier trying to find his footing in peacetime. Beth is a widow with a secret about her marriage she's not ready to share. Neither of them planned on this. But then, neither of them planned on a lot of things. A story about surviving what breaks you — and finding something worth building in the wreckage.