Far away from Independence, in sunny California, Avery Wilkinson works as an undercover agent and profiler for the drug department. The emergence of a ruthless serial killer unexpectedly gives her an exciting assignment: she is to create a perpetrator profile for the FBI. If only it weren't for her new colleague: Cole Carter. Her former teenage love, whom she could never quite forget. Cole Carter, Special Agent of the FBI, fell head over heels in love with his best friend Avery Wilkinson over ten years ago. But he messed it up. He wouldn't make that mistake a second time. However, he first needs to convince Avery of that. This takes time. Time he doesn't have. Completely unexpectedly, Avery becomes the target of the killer. A wild chase unfolds from the beaches of San Diego to the mountains of Independence.