Fiercely independent, Janie Jansen has spent her life proving there are worse things than being blind. She has moved away from overprotective parents, built a career in New York City as one of her company's top technical editors, and made a point of needing no one, until an accident upends her life and forces her to surrender the very independence she fought so hard to win. Firefighter Boyd Hudson knows about starting over: he has clawed past a tragic past and is weeks away from his dream of medical school, though the toll of chasing it while working three jobs shows. With a string of failed relationships behind him, he deliberately avoids girlfriends, which is complicated by his pull toward one of his co-workers. When Boyd comes to Janie's rescue, she has no choice but to accept his help, and she discovers there is far more to the sexy-sounding office flirt than his easy one-liners suggest. Their connection deepens as Janie heals, but it turns out she isn't the only one carrying wounds. When Boyd's painful past resurfaces to threaten what they are building, he is forced to reexamine everything he believes about himself, and to decide whether he can let himself be healed too.