When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman taylor mcaden feels compelled to take terrifying risks to save lives
But there is one leap of faith taylor can't bring himself to make: he can't fall in love
For all his adult years, taylor has sought out women who need to be rescued, women he leaves as soon as their crisis is over and the relationship starts to become truly intimate
When a raging storm hits his small southern town, single mother denise holton's car skids off the road
The young mom is with her four-year-old son, kyle, a boy with severe learning disabilities and for whom she has sacrificed everything
Taylor mcaden finds her unconscious and bleeding, but does not find kyle
When denise wakes, the chilling truth becomes clear to both of them: kyle is gone
During the search for kyle, the connection between taylor and denise takes root
Taylor doesn't know that this rescue will be different from all the others, demanding far more than raw physical courage
It will lead him to the possibility of his own rescue from a life lived without love and will require him to open doors to his past that were slammed shut by pain
This rescue will dare him to live life to the fullest by daring to love. ?trim