The dark secrets haunted Mackenzie her entire life. Memories from her childhood trouble her leading her to believe that her father is capable of anything, possibly even murder and kidnapping. Mac knows the time has come to face her past and find out what happened to her deceased mother. Her mother’s death and suspicious circumstances behind why Mac was whisked away from her the only place she called home have to be linked together. Mac thinks there is more behind the story than what’s she been told. Mac decides to return home to the Pinelands to gain the answers she needs. Gavin’s soul is crushed. His wild heart is broken from a past that is spoken about in whispers and stares. Mac crashes down on Gavin’s world without an invitation making him confront his past head on. Gavin was consumed by darkness and lost among the woods until Mac tumbled out of his best friend’s truck. Part of Gavin wishes he never met Mac. The other half of Gavin knows that he needs Mac to save him from the darkness.