Content with raising her two small children alone, after her husband's unexpected death, Delaney Wallace lives a quiet life, painting on the beach, in her Southern California home. That contentment and solitude comes to a screeching halt when New Yorker, Devin Caine decides to take a vacation from playing the viola in the New York Philharmonic, only a few doors down from Laney. After their first run-in, Devin is puzzled by his quick and stunning reaction to Laney. She is not only beautiful, but her fiery passion, hidden under so much pain, has only intrigued him more. He pursues her, only to be pushed away, time after time. Laney, terrified by her reactions to Devin, isn't willing to take the chance to put her heart on the line, only to have it broken again. Can her heart talk her mind into playing the game? Or will Laney continue to stay out of the battle, Devin is so willing to fight and win?