For so many years Eve had been able to keep her past and her secrets from her new family. Edward and his daughter had lost his wife near the end of the war, Eve had been friends with the family for years and stayed friends after her death. Never could she imagine that in the years to follow they would grow so close that in time Edward asked her to marry him, not careing she was a local police officer. But now only a year after being able to call Edward husband and herself wife and stepmother, Her past and secrets have found her. Everything changed the night the dark men came to finish the job started long ago, and thier attack shows her new family her darkest secrets.