My name is Jason Atkinson, and I married a serial killer.

My world shattered on a cold April morning when they took him away in cuffs.

The life I knew, the man I loved, and the world I believed in was nothing but a lie. My husband stole my trust, my happiness, and my faith in humanity. I’m not sure how to move on.

With my mental health hanging by a thread, and a media circus following me everywhere I go, escape seems like the only answer.

Shed the old life and start fresh.

A new city. A new teaching job. A new name.

Maybe everyone will leave me alone and let me wallow in peace.

Skylar Dawson, a young student almost twenty years my junior, has a different plan.

Everything about him is endless; his eyes, his smile, even his babbling mouth.

He shines with a blinding inner light I can’t ignore.

He’s a ray of sunshine in my dark world.

Skylar Dawson will not be ignored.

Will this young man’s energy and patience run out when he realizes I’m too tormented and broken to love him back?