When seven year old Cirina "Rina" Powell comes to live with her relatives, the wealthy Parker family, she shakes up their carefully organized world. Over several months the quiet child unwittingly suffers at their hands. She becomes... A child who withdraws into herself. A child who learns to keep secrets. A child who grows into a successful pastry chef who guards her heart. But when she meets a handsome stranger with secrets even darker than her own, she must choose whether to love him or close her heart off forever...