Nikki McKay, completely blind-sided by the unforeseen death of her estranged husband Peter Forester, needed to come to grips their marriage of six years had been a total sham. A part of her had been hoping for some kind of reconciliation, not for her, but for the sake of their four-year old son, Christopher. Peter was an absentee husband and father, finding excuses why he was occupied elsewhere, unless they were a convenience in his climbing the corporate ladder.Her loving parents insisted she take time away to pull herself together by opening up the family's lake house for the season, taking her beloved Irish Setter Barney with her. She yearned for the quiet of the woods and the lake, but never imagined her world was on a full-scale collision course with an utterly charming younger man, a caring benefactor, and one very bitter, angry and resolute man. Heath Winters, rebuilding his life after a traumatizing breakup with his fiancee four years ago, now had to face her untimely death. The demons possessing him were from guilt. The possibility that he, and he alone, had been responsible for their breakup due to his resistance to having children based on his own childhood haunted him. His once joyful and fun-loving personality took a dark turn when he found out the details of her death.Fire and ice seemed to have destined Nikki McKay and Heath Winters, bringing them together to battle the onslaughts of evil testing their resolve.