Helena "Harvard" Schmitt could not leave her life on the mountain soon enough. A life of academic rigor at Harvard was made possible by her extraordinary athletic gift: running. Thor Himmel was the academic equivalent of a movie star: attractive, intelligent, and unattainable. As Helena and Thor run away from their demons, their paths inevitably and abruptly cross far from where they ever imagined forcing them to confront the past that might just destroy their future.