Teenage Julia Loren was supposed to go to art school, marry Braxton Anders, and live happily ever after. That was the plan until the month she discovered she was pregnant and he left her. Single-mom Julia doesn’t believe in love anymore. She doesn’t have time to figure out how to rebuild the once-glittering future that unraveled in a blink. She works her ass off, carries her hurts in silence, and gives her daughter the best life she can. What she wants doesn’t matter. When a second chance at love appears, Julia is forced to face her past and to discover whether opening her heart again might save her tiny family or wreck it once and for all.