Kendall Brooks has an impossible decision: Tell the truth or protect the lie? She has buried herself in years of undergrad, medical school, and now her residency–hoping to leave behind what she is unable to face. Her world is rocked to the core when she returns to her small hometown and runs smack dab into her first love, Adam McCoy. Adam is the key. He stirs up old emotions that send Kendall spiraling back in time, remembering all the moments that led them to her ultimate deception. Will revealing the truth of what transpired all those years ago provide her the self-forgiveness that she desperately craves or will her devastating secret destroy the only man she has ever truly loved, shattering her heart in its wake?