Emma Simms is running for her life and she doesn't know why. Receiving a cryptic email from her step-brother Eric, she meets him at a cabin they share in Upstate New York to find him near death. He insists she's in danger and sends her on a cross-country trip to Colorado to find his old partner Artemis Jones and a mysterious flash drive that will explain everything. While on the road, she learns Eric died and not only do the authorities consider her a person of interest, her parents believe she is responsible for his death. In order to get her life back she must find his old partner and hope he has the answers that will end this nightmare.Artemis Jones has turned his back on civilization since the death of his wife, two years ago. He has kept in touch with one person from his former life, his partner Eric Barron. Returning from a camping trip and on his way to meet with Eric, he stops to help a woman after she's almost run off the road. Regret quickly follows. When he learns she's Eric's step-sister he knows something is off. Eric knows better than to send a stranger, especially a female one, to meet with him. Which raises the question, where's Eric?Can the two of them put aside their distrust of others and themselves long enough to find the real murderer? Can the passion they discover survive the truths they find along the way?