Nineteen-year-old Maddie Pearce has had her fill of tragedy. Losing both parents at an early age, she’s struggled to find happiness. Going off to college seems the perfect antidote and everything is finally falling into place until she takes that backpacking trip she’s been dreaming of.

The Smokey Mountains are familiar to her since she’d been there many times with her dad. But this time was nothing like the others. During her trip she finds her world is spinning toward the impossible.

Abducted by a psychopath, Maddie narrowly escapes with her life. But that’s only the beginning. When her mysterious rescuer introduces her to a strange new world, Maddie has difficulty accepting it as reality. Will this gorgeous stranger be the key to her future, or will she return to her mundane world, permanently scarred from her experience, and in danger of the psychopath finding her again?