Elizabeth Finch is trying to start her life over. The first twenty-plus years of that life were quite unnoteworthy and then it got much worse. She was falsely accused of second-degree murder and served slightly over three and a half years in a New York state prison before being vindicated. With little experience of how to live on her own, she is forced into a world she is unprepared for.
She had few friends before her conviction and none now. Her mother and stepfather moved without telling her. She has no reason to stay in New York City and relocates to Atlanta with only the clothes on her back.
She finds a room to rent but has to find a job with no references or job skills. After searching she locates a job as a fugitive retrieval agent – a bounty hunter. Using the skills she learned in prison while trying to protect herself from the inmates there, she finds that she can make a living doing this job.
One day she meets a young minister. He opens her eyes to a whole new world. One she may have secretly wished for but never allowed herself to think it could happen to her.
She is constantly tormented by her two personalities of convict and Christian.