Laura Jameson grew up in what most considered a picture perfect family. The beautiful parents that were the 'It Couple' in their high school careers to only continue into their adult lives with their successes. She even had the annoyingly handsome older brother, Cole, who was the star quarterback in high school, like his father before him, to go on and work side by side with their father in the family business. She was blissful in her ignorance and only saw beauty in the world, only hearing horror stories of how cruel life can truly be to some, never knowing anyone that dealt with those dark secrets locked away in the deepest parts of them. Chase Marshall is a kind, caring man but has the uncanny ability to read people and for that it has made him to be a highly successful business man. His childhood was anything but picture perfect. His parents were both abusive addicts up until their early deaths, sending Chase from one foster home to the next. Each foster home brought with it new forms of abuse only to add more bricks to the wall around his heart. Once the State deemed him an adult, his last foster home spit him out with the clothes on his back and nothing more to his name. He has never known love, only to long for it and be let down at every turn. He refuses to fall victim to his tainted past and will forever seek the good out there in the world hoping one day to have some of his own that can tear down the walls he built. Laura was simply acquainted with Chase during her high school years. She knew him as the silent boy who lived next door that kept to himself that suddenly disappeared not long before graduation. She didn't give him much thought until fate pushed them together years later. Her father's company was partnering with CMI, whose CEO happened to be none other than the lonely boy she once knew as Chase Marshall. Her father had one stipulation in this merger, and it was that his children remained on staff in highly respectable positions and he was to remain a silent partner. Chase made it a point to never fraternize with his female employees, until Laura caught his eye. Something about her seemed to put a crack in his walls that took decades to build. Can Laura break down Chase's walls, or is happiness something he will wish for only to never obtain it?