Emma Landry is tough, independent, beautiful, and smart. Being an outcast unable to identify with her classmates, she was willing to do whatever it takes to climb her way out of poverty. Like Sapphire Blue Having never known a mother's love, her father "Bear", raised her on the wrong side of the tracks in a wealthy town. When success beckons, the woman she's been in love with is, finally, within her grasp. Life is now worth living and loving. That is, until a dark family secret is revealed. A secret tied into the very fabric of who she is, and what she spent a lifetime working to overcome. Faced with a foundation shattering treachery, Emma finds herself at the crossroads. Can she overcome a destiny stronger than death, destitution, and murder, to prove she is more than just her father's daughter? Or will this new knowledge lead her to destroy the world she's spent a lifetime building?