Cassandra Reed had already lost everything worth losing by the time she turned twenty-one.Her mother was gone. Her father had chosen a new family — one that made it clear there was no room for her. She had learned to survive on scraps of peace, stealing quiet moments wherever she could find them.Then one night took even that from her.She never saw his face clearly. She never knew his name. All she carried away from that night was a bruise that wouldn’t heal and a secret growing quietly inside her.When a stranger pulls her off the road weeks later — broke, homeless and running for her life — she thinks maybe, for once, luck has finally found her.She has no idea she just walked into the home of the man who broke her.