Clementine Becker has spent her life becoming invisible. Abandoned by her mother, hollowed out by grief, and carrying a secret, she has no room left for anyone new-until Saxon Stone walks into an art gallery opening in 2012 Seattle.Saxon is a war correspondent sidelined by injury, assigned to profile a Seattle resident for a human-interest story. When that turns out to be Clementine, what begins as journalism becomes something neither of them planned.When the truth of Clementine's secret surfaces, Saxon faces an impossible choice-publish the story that could revive his career, or walk away from it to embrace a love he knows won't last.Both of them must ask the same question: is a connection with a built-in ending worth the devastating cost of having it at all?