Taryn wants to live a life of independence. There's only one problem, she's too afraid to leave her house. Since she was sixteen and witnessed her father's murder, she's been tormented night after night by the same pair of evil eyes. She is disabled by her fear, yet she wants nothing more than to be "normal". Carter has just come home after graduating college and is looking forward to a summer with his friends. The last thing he wants is an attachment to a woman, that is until he meets Taryn. The odds are stacked against them, but together they find they can conquer the past. Until someone wants to make the past a new reality. Can they survive what Fate has in store?