Kate McCullough is a brilliant trauma surgeon. She has dedicated her life to working to save others in a quest to atone for a tragic mistake in her past. A recovering alcoholic, estranged from her father, she has closed herself off from others, afraid to hurt them or be hurt by them. But when she is forced to help one of her patients, a prisoner, break out of the hospital, her carefully built walls begin to crumble. She is drawn to Mike, a police investigator assigned to the case. But even while she starts to believe this time she can learn to trust and find happiness, he discovers things that makes him question her. Her brother Bode is in prison and there are too many connections between him and the break out crew to ignore. Was she a part of it or just a pawn?