Two years ago Cole Ashcroft rejected me on live television, six weeks after my brother's funeral. I transferred schools, took a losing team, and made it unbeaten. I am the only woman starting at quarterback in this division. Then a story says I only keep my job by sleeping with my coach, and the man who broke me goes on air and claims the relationship is with him. The lie saves my career. I never agreed to it. But my body is failing, and I've stopped healing. And somebody paid my coach fifteen thousand dollars three weeks before my brother died. The rejection was never real. It was bought. And the man I'm fake dating is the one who's been paying for me ever since.

Maya gave up her promotion and took a nursing job overseas because her husband Daniel said it would secure their family. The job was a trap. For two years she was held in Libya and forced to work, and she lived for one thing: getting home to her son. When she finally reaches her front door, her younger sister opens it wearing a wedding ring. Her four-year-old son calls her sister Mommy. A court paper says Maya abandoned her family, signed by a husband who swore he never heard from her again. But Maya called him from Libya. She begged him for help. She remembers the date. Now she must prove it, win back a son who does not know her, and face the doctor treating her, the first love she once left without a word. Most of all, she must find out why the two people she trusted most needed her to stay gone.