Kate is only eighteen when she meets Tom Harper, one of America's biggest pro-football stars. They share an idyllic a nd glamo r ous first love. But the bullet that suddenly ends Tom's career also ends their life together. A failed suicide attempt will leave him mentally a nd physically disabled fo r ever. Kate will be left alone, heartbroken, a nd pregnant with their son. Soon she will have another chance at love, but it will mean learning to let go of the past a nd learning to trust again.