When Olivia Middleton abandons the glamor of Park Avenue for a coastal town in Maine, everyone accepts her for the do-gooder she always was. But Olivia has a secret: helping an injured war veteran return to society is not charity, but repentance. Only Olivia's client is not the grateful older man she expects. He turns out to be a twenty-four-year-old gloomy young man who has no intention of being a chance to save Olivia... And he is the one whose smoldering gaze and forbidden touches could destroy her. Paul Langdon does not need a mirror to see that he is no longer the same quarterback - the daredevil he was before the war. He knows he is ugly, both inside and out. He will do anything to remain in self-imposed exile, even accepting his father's ultimatum: he will have to endure a new guardian who will look after him for three months, otherwise he will lose his inheritance. But Paul didn't count on a beautiful twenty-two-year-old guardian who makes him want what he can never have. And the more she breaks through his defenses, the harder it becomes for him to keep his distance. Now Paul and Olivia must decide: can they help each other heal? Or are they broken forever?