Twenty-five year old Elena Carter returns to Ashford City after seventeen years, carrying the weight of a promise she made to her dying father and a vow of revenge she made to herself. Haunted by memories of the rainy night when her family knelt in the mud, begging for mercy that never came, Elena remembers only one face: the man who destroyed everything her father built and left them with nothing.When her mother died giving birth to her sister Lily that same week, Elena's childhood ended. Now, she's back with Lily, a beautiful and talented twenty-one year old who knows nothing of their family's dark past. As Elena stands in their modest new home, staring out at the city that took everything from her, she prepares to reclaim what was stolen.But revenge is never simple. The deeper Elena digs into the past, the more she discovers that the truth she's been carrying all these years might be incomplete. Between the son of her enemy who seems nothing like his father, unexpected alliances, and secrets that refuse to stay buried, Elena must decide. Will she destroy the family that destroyed hers, or will she finally learn the whole truth about that rainy night seventeen years ago?In a story of betrayal, justice, and unexpected love, one woman's quest for revenge might lead her to something she never expected redemption.