26-year-old bartender Sloan Dawson has been on the run for the last decade. When her father abruptly disappeared, leaving Sloan and her mother to settle his debts, her mother sacrificed her own life so that her daughter might escape The Collectors. Since the age of sixteen, Sloane has picked up her life, moving cities every few months to evade capture, so when she relocates to New Orleans, she doesn't expect to stay for very long. But a chance encounter with four men from her past threatens to change everything. Childhood friends, Deacon, Avery, Sumner, and Reed, were once her fiercest protectors. Now that the boys are all grown up, Sloan is having a difficult time resisting their individual charms. The instinct to run and protect them from her enemies rides her hard, but the foursome is not only unwilling to let her go again but also ready to protect her at all costs.