Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby, she witnesses the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The only person to see the shooterβs face, Ellie is suddenly at the center of a criminal investigation. Agent Max Daniels takes over the Landry case. A no- nonsense lawman, heβs definitely not the ideal man that Ellie has always imagined, yet sheβs attracted to him in a way she canβt explain. Ellie heads home to Winston Falls, South Carolina, to attend her sisterβs wedding. Shortly after she arrives, though, she receives a surprise visitor: Max Daniels. The Landrys have been captured, and sheβll be called to testify. But theyβve been captured before, and each time the witnesses are scared into silenceβor disappear before they can take the stand. Max vows to be Ellieβs shadow until the trial, and it isnβt long before sparks fly.