Captain Eli Walker had spent the last 150 years fighting in wars all over the world. But this scarred soldier was about to face the most wrenching battle of his long life, with a heart-breaking ghost from his past. Single mother Maryrose Hughes came to the small town of Morris to find a new life for herself and her infant son. What she found there was a man she was drawn to in ways that were as mysterious as he was. Life and death collide as they strive to reconcile their pasts, while struggling to find a common future.

In a broken down world, connections make all the difference. A glimpse into a tempestuous relationship where love meets obsession on the fringes of society, blurring the lines of conventional romance.