After spending twelve years in prison for voluntary manslaughter, Richard Evans is released with nothing but two duffel bags and the weight of a past he can’t escape. Rejected by every landlord because of his criminal record, he reluctantly accepts a spare bedroom from Silia Chavez, a kindhearted fashion student in Los Angeles who believes everyone deserves a chance. As an unlikely friendship blossoms into love, Richard slowly begins to rebuild his life, finding work in construction while learning through therapy that redemption isn’t earned overnight. But when the truth about the night he killed his abusive stepfather finally comes to light, Silia is forced to confront her own painful past as the survivor of a home invasion that claimed her parents’ lives. Together, they must decide whether people should be defined by the worst thing they’ve ever done—or by the person they choose to become afterward.
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