Maple left her home at the age of fifteen. Traveling the country, she began taking care of children. She enjoyed being a nanny and enriching their lives, giving them the love she never had as a child. Never did she imagine that her current travels would put her in a situation that could change her life forever. Not until she met John Walters. When she took the position of a live-in nanny, she assumed the job would be like all the others. She was wrong. Here was a man whose wife had abandoned him and his children. A man whose grief had turned to drinking, and whose drinking was tearing his family apart. From the minute she met him, Maple wanted to run the other way, run from this man who so obviously disliked her. But as much as she wanted to go, part of her wanted to stay.