Luke is in a loving relationship with Faith Scott. Everything is going well in his work and love life, until his surrogate sister, Hope McKenzie, rushes headlong into trouble.
In the middle of an unfolding drama, tangled in a money laundering web, Luke and Faith find themselves being slowly ripped apart.
To complicate matters, Hope fell in love with Joe Di Nozzi, who is also Victor Carabella. Could he trust Joe/Victor not to hurt Hope?
Then, after saving Hope from a fiery conflagration, Luke finds himself in the Burns unit, gripped in the claws of self-pity. He thinks of himself as disfigured, yet Faith thinks of him as merely scarred. Would he be able to see himself as the hero she believes he is?