Christopher Henderson built his walls for good reason. Heir to a Texas automotive fortune and grieving parents he lost too soon, he’s learned that everyone who gets close is really reaching for his money. So he stops reaching back until a single message arrives from the other side of the world.

How are you?

Her name is Tala and she lives in a remote village on the island of Bohol. She makes clothing, tends to her family’s garden and never once asks him for anything. Across ten thousand miles and thirteen time zones, something grows between them that Chris had stopped believing was possible. And for the first time since the funeral, he lets himself hope.

But hope is a dangerous thing to carry across an ocean. What awaits Chris in the Philippines will test everything he thinks he knows about the woman he’s fallen for, and fate has never been gentle with the ones who find true love.

Some hearts are worth crossing the world and risking everything for.

Inspired by a true story.