Magnolia McKenzie is a determined young attorney who has just landed the career of a lifetime at a prestigious law firm in Chicago. Maggie lives in a world of comforting illusion, blocking out a painful past as she makes her way to the top. Her new life is just beginning when her world is turned upside down by a mysterious stranger with wild hazel eyes. Within 24 hours of meeting the enigmatic and beguiling Nathaniel, Maggie's life begins spiraling out of control. After he brutally murders a man to save her life, she desperately seeks to uncover the secrets of his cryptic past. What she finds will leave her entwined in a war that will ultimately make her choose between the life she has always dreamed of, or her allegiance to a man that threatens to ruin it all.