Dr. Sam Alexander regards involvement with a patient as unethical and unprofessional; until he meets Rebecca Fisher and her stories of a young woman with nobody to turn to tug at his heartstrings. A young woman who may have never experienced the freedom to express her emotions as a child, and now in adulthood. Rebecca has just enough charm, not enough confidence and perhaps a little too much recklessness for Sam's taste. And she is a patient of his...but the goal Sam has is to find out why she feels the need to see a counselor on a professional basis. Is she hiding something from her past?...

Having her best childhood friend move to the same small town she lived in, Carrie Dexter was ecstatic. It wasn't long before her own insecurities got the best of her, changing her, making her become unpleasant to the people who loved her the most; pushing her to the edge, perhaps to the point of abandoning her family. Moving to a new town to start fresh seemed to be just what the doctor ordered for Madeline Tucker. Giving up the years she spent with the same company to learn it from the ground up; when she realized she could go no farther. Moving to be near her best childhood friend and kick...