Kimberly Alexis hasn't always had it easy. No mother and a father's hatred, all she's ever had is the love and devotion of her grandmother. But when her grandmother dies, she is again devastated. Her father's hatred turns especially harsh after the reading of her grandmother's will, leaving all the money to her. And he vows revenge. She decides to leave her life behind to keep her promise to her grandmother and finish college. Kimberly and her college roommates, Cindy and Grace, become the best of friends spending every moment together only to have their lives shattered after witnessing the murder of a local prominent businessman. Kimberly is astonished when Cindy suggests that the only way to survive is run and hide. Change their identities, never to see each other again. That's the only way to survive -- to walk away from their friendship and their dreams. Late one night, they run. Kimberly follows her heart and travels to Los Angeles where she meets playboy John Maddox and his brooding, FBI agent brother Matthew. She doesn't believe in fairytales, but falls in love hard and fast. But with the wrong man. After months of a loveless marriage, she divorces only to find herself on the run again. Cindy finds herself hiding in New York City where she decides to write. She travels to Milan, but on the streets of Milan she comes face to face with the rugged Italian, Dario Moretti. Her heart will never be the same after one night. Meanwhile, Grace finds herself in Seattle, in love and happy. Only to have her life destroyed. Now, one year later, the past comes back to haunt them when Grace is kidnapped. The question is, is it the Mafia, Kimberly's father or some other secret? The truth is, each could go missing and no one would go looking for them; and that is what the kidnapper is counting on. But is it revenge they want, or money? After a year apart, Kim and Cindy must unite to save Grace. But there are secrets they each hold. Secrets that have nothing to do with the murder. Dark family secrets.