Jensen and Lainey’s emotional past anchors their connection, but when their present becomes unsteady, will their future together be enough to save them from succumbing to the darkness?

Lainey Bradford has always been the shoulder for everyone else to cry on. After surviving an attack that left her broken and scarred—both physically and mentally—she clings to her boyfriend, Cole, regardless of the endless red flags he does little to hide. But when she gets a dream offer to become a professional hockey team’s physical therapist, a fire reignites inside of her, and she’s ready to fight for what she wants. There’s only one problem with this team, and it's a six-foot-five hockey player she used to call her best friend.

Jensen Donnelley, a notorious defenseman for the New York Nighthawks, has always struggled with his mental health, especially after enduring a horrific car accident that took his older sister’s life when they were kids. He’s good at internalizing everything, much like he did when Lainey cut him off after years of friendship because of his hockey rival, Cole, and much like he’s doing now, hiding something that could put him on injury reserve for the season…or even longer.

The tension is palpable when the two are reunited, Lainey’s disdain an equal match for Jensen’s yearning. But a relationship thirteen years in the making doesn’t come without tribulations. As they chip away at each other’s walls, uncovering new scars and dredging up old, haunting memories, they’ll have to decide if their struggles with the darkness in their minds will unite them once and for all or tear them apart for good.