At the edge of the raging Colorado River, Robert Jaeger stands ready to end his life. He is in mourning over his dead wife and having a hard time picking up the pieces to care for their four-year-old daughter. Lilly Radford hasn't been the same since her baby died. Unable to cope, she drives for days and ends up at the Colorado River and falls in. Before Robert can execute his heinous act, he is catapulted into rescue mode to save another. In his zealous attempt, he soon realizes this stranger may have saved him. When he returns to Seattle to face life alone, he is stalked by two inevitable threats. Zachary Butler, a cold and calculated killer, is close on Robert's heels determined to kill Robert for getting him fired. But the second threat is just as lethal, leaving him to wonder how his heart will survive a second chance at love or the heartbreak sure to follow. Entangled in a world of selfish ambition, these characters chase something mankind has never been able to capture. Time. And if Robert and Lilly don't get over their selfishness, they may never experience the beauty lying just below the surface of their pain … if Zachary Butler has his way. Amid the anger, madness, darkness, murder, obsession, ambition … How will it all end?