Ashlyn Chandler had to make ends meet. After her father had died, her mother, Lydia had done the best she could to raise Ashlyn, but she had gotten sick. Ashlyn didn't know what she would do if she ever lost her mother. The bond she shared with her was unbreakable. When the medicine ran out, she knew that she would have to put her pride aside. Ashlyn worked in a dress boutique during the day and they would give her old dress, torn dress that her mother would mend them to make them look new for Ashlyn's other job she would have at night. She had rules- never kiss a man with her eyes open. Never let her heart get involved. Julio Ramos made a vow to never love a woman after his mother died. For years he had watched his father fade away. He could never understand how that kind of love could change a person, until he met Ashlyn Chandler. Could he truly love a woman the way his father loved his mother? Could she break her last rule or leave her mother?