Wracked with guilt at having caused the accident that confines Burl Tupper to a wheelchair, Carmen Taylor chooses to sacrifice her own happiness to Burl’s needs. Even if it means watching the one true love of her life, Chester Sheffield, end up with her best friend, Desiree Lucienne. But when she commits a desperate crime of passion, she and Desiree hit the road running. But can she avoid the truth she’s avoided all her life? Now she has two choices - living a life on the lam, or returning to the place where it all began…the only place where she may find love and redemption.