"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves." ShakespeareKathleen Spencer, scarred by a past that etched her soul with bitterness, lives life with a safety net. Into this well-disciplined existence comes Jonathan Ames, man of intrigue and mystery, a man whose private demons put at peril the very fortress she has worked so hard to secure....love and deception......jealously and passion...Kate: By lessons learned, her life is swaddled with bands of steel. Emotions long put away must not be allowed to resurface.Jon: Desperate to break from the past, secrets buried deep and certain threaten his last chance for happiness.Julie: The mysterious beauty in the photograph is obsessed with a love so darkly possessive that it will change the course of three lives.Will they all be destroyed?