Carla Stewart is a budding poet/author in high school and over the years has scribbled page after page with words of insight, dreams and longings that reflect her pride in her African heritage. She is also the glue that holds her special group of friends together. However, she puts her dreams on the back burner and opts for the safety of a college education to prepare herself for life in the real world as an attorney.

Even that plan is pushed to the side when, during her second year in college, she is swept off her feet by college basketball star, Glen Wright. As often happens, Carla finds herself pregnant and although Glen does “the right thing” and insists on marriage, he soon panics and heads for the hills, leaving Carla alone before the baby has even arrived.

Before she can even decide what to tell her parents about the marriage and pregnancy, she is viciously attacked during the night in her apartment and barely survives. She returns home with her baby, recovers and returns to college to finish her degree and becomes a successful attorney with a New Jersey law firm.

Then tragedy strikes the family again, when Carla gets a call from her cousin Justine, whose police officer husband had just been killed in the line of duty on the west coast. She rushes to Justine’s side, as does Carla’s brother, Darius, who has been living in San Francisco for several years in the gay community and is a successful designer.

Carla makes the decision to stay on the west coast near Darius and Justine, and goes back to her first love…writing. She is discovered, becomes a well-known author and finally begins to have an interest in a relationship with another man, who soon becomes too serious and Carla severs the relationship.

In the meantime, yet another basketball hero—this time on a professional level—engineers a book signing for Carla in his home state of Washington. Derek Black and Carla Stewart-Wright are obviously star-crossed lovers who were destined to meet. While everything finally seems to be falling into place in Carla’s love-life, it appears that some neurotic fan has decided if he can’t have her, no one else will, either.

The strength of Carla’s faith in God, the love of her husband and family, and the support of Carla’s childhood friends are severely tested by Carla’s stalker, and the twists and turns of fate make this romantic suspense tale hard to put down once you start.