Unwittingly, Dana Whittington shelters a convicted murderer in her cabin during a blizzard. Dana's a children's book writer and author of a popular series starring Mortimer Q. Morganbrood the cat and is staying at her cousin's deserted resort as caretaker, so she can have peace and solitude to make her latest deadline.  She finds the handsome, unconscious, and half-frozen man on her doorstep and nurses him until he's able to leave on his own, only to have him comeback, and this time she knows who he is.  Remy Leverette is a convicted murderer who took his chance to escape during a power outage at the prison. He wants to hunt down evidence he knows exists but was not used at his trial to prove his alibi for the night of his wife's murder, and to prove his innocence so he can regain custody of his beloved five-year-old daughter, Chantal.  As they work to prove Remy's innocence, Dana and Remy can't deny their growing attraction, but after so much deception between them, can they trust each other to gain a future together?