Holly Brimmer never expected to be brought back from the dead. After a fatal car crash, a mysterious stranger gives her a second chance at life?"but it comes with a price. To stay alive she must pay it forward, accomplish an important deed, thus making her mark in the world. Until she does, her savior is bound to her. Now she has a backyard full of dead bodies and one unwanted houseguest. Keane Malson kills bad guys to keep the innocent alive, but he's still a monster. Cursed by a witch moments before an honorable death on the battlefield, he's lived thousands of years, roaming from place to place with no end in sight. It's a lonely life...until he meets Holly. When a wanted man targets Holly, Keane will do anything to protect her, even if it's the last thing he ever does.