PROLOGUE

'Ordinary' Sawyer Emerson had always felt herself compensating for the void she never felt she filled, volunteering galore and globally to create a difference. Even despite meeting thousands of new faces on her journeys, she'd still fall into bed each night with a painful ache of unimportance.

But all it took was one attempted murder, one stray hound and one broken man to flip her entire introverted existence and toss it onto its head.