Following an abusive relationship during her freshman year, Aubrey Pierce enters her junior year with fragments of a past she can't remember—and a fear she can't explain.

She knows only that anyone who gets too close to her could become a target of the person she once loved and the friends still devoted to him.

Then Ryan moves to town, running from a troubled past of his own. Drawn to Aubrey, he refuses to let her push him away, even as she tries desperately to keep him at a distance.

But as fragments of Aubrey's forgotten memories begin to surface, so does the fear that Ryan is getting dangerously close to a past he knows nothing about.

She knows being near her puts him in danger.

She just doesn't know how to stay away from him.