Losing a loved one to an illness you can't fight is rough. Darkness sets in. People share advice. 'Time heals all', and 'it's always darkest just before the dawn'. Charlie lost Allie. Natalie lost her, too. They found each other and saw the sun rise. When they found Allison, another Allie, in a quirk of fate, there might as well have been two suns. For Charlie, there truly was a Dawn Beyond the Darkness.
Thrown together by circumstance, a young lawyer meets a young woman and there is instant attraction. But he moves too fast and their hot relationship becomes business-only. And then everything is upended when they take on the case of an abused woman and child vs. an all-powerful institution.