Leah Lam and Austin Wolf were young when they fell in love. They could never imagine a future other than “together and forever.” After the tragic death of Leia's father in a fishing accident, she is overwhelmed by the weight of her grief and realizes that she cannot face the future that briefly flashes before her eyes. Austin is angry. For the last fifteen years, he believed that the woman he loved with all his soul had left him without looking back. Leah's unexpected return to her hometown brings all of Austin's years of heartache to the surface, turning it into blinding rage. Faced with the truth about their past and a newly revealed secret, the former lovers learn that if they want to have any chance at the future they abandoned all those years ago, without drowning in debilitating pain, they will have to save each other. - fight to breathe.