Raised in a single parent home in the Jordan Downs Projects, Chance found a way out. He has graduated from college, landed a job making forty-five thousand a year, owns his own home, and has a beautiful girlfriend named Jade. And he did it all the legal way. He is nothing like his homeboy, Calhoun, a drug-selling deadbeat who won't get his life together, not even for his two kids. Deyja is a beautiful and spoiled, twenty-one-year-old real estate agent from Bixby Knolls, CA, soon to be married to her high school sweetheart, Police Officer Devin Chase. Devin is brutally murdered the night before his wedding, and Chance is falsely accused of his murder and sentenced to fifteen years to life in prison. Chance, labeled a cop killer, loses everything: his job, his home, girlfriend, his mother, and almost his mind. A victim of a cover-up and a corrupt prison system, Chance is subjected to attacks by prison guards and inmates, sexual abuse, and too many run-ins with death to count. Attempting to move on after her fiancé's death, Deyja joins a charity group at her church that writes letters to inmates. She is given Chance's information. They become pen pals, each unaware of the identity of the other. After eight years in prison, Chance is released. He finds Deyja, but does not reveal his identity to her for fear that she will want no part of an ex-convict. Deyja finds herself falling for this thug whose touch and lovemaking she just can't get enough of. Old friends come back into the picture: Jade, desperate to get Chance back, and Calhoun, the person responsible for Chance going to jail. When Chance finds out who Deyja really is, he has the choice to tell Deyja or risk her finding out on her own. Explosive secrets are revealed, along with the true motive for Devin Chase's murder. Will Chance and Deyja move forward together or will the past destroy them?