The beginning scene opens with Jack and Lia as they evade the Vancouver police. Claudia and Rich, the best detectives are attempting to capture these fugitives. Lia had committed the ultimate act of love; killing her father over her boyfriend, Jack. “You know what makes me special? Most say they’d kill for their lover, the only difference is that I have,” - Lia Landon. God narrates this journey as the two fugitives end up in Coalfields, Montana. A place where murderers, pedophiles, and rapists live their days until they die. A prison without a fence called Coalfields. The premise is simple. Jack is forced to work at the Coal mines until he dies, and Lia is supposed to live a life of a housewife, alone. We quickly find out this isn’t easy for Jack, who was the number 1 rated highschool quarterback in Canada at the time. As well as Lia, whom, has mental issues of her own from her past trauma of child abuse. This high profile case quickly puts a target on Jack’s back, as Danny Green, an up and coming writer, born into Coalfields, becomes obsessed with the idea of the News propagated across the country. That Jack murdered a high profile lawyer, kidnapped his daughter and then forced her here against her will. As an author, he spins this story inside his head, imagining himself as the knight to slay the dragon and rescue the princess. Danny comes up with a plan: develop a fake persona called Sawyer and save Lia. He shows Lia the life of cocaine, stories, and adventure–while Jack is forced to work like a slave at the mines. The family drama thickens when Jack finds himself wanting to repent his wild ways as a teenager, and seeks to get a second job at a brothel to get American cash, to afford a real engagement ring. The Kicker? the brothel’s owner is Judy Green. Danny’s sister. . The top of the mountain reaches when Lia and Jack have sex for the first time, albeit it, because Danny in haste–pushed himself onto Lia to no avail. And Lia, feeling like she’s the very whore her father claimed her to be–felt guilty The second volume is the great descension. Coalfields has changed them; yet the focus is still the same–Lia weighs her love to Jack on the basis she killed for him–Jack weighs his love for her on the basis he threw his whole life away for her–and yet even after consummating their forced relationship; they feel far apart as they’ve ever been. Claudia and Rich finally track Lia and Jack down to Coalfields. However, they are quickly in a knot when they find out America has no intention of returning the fugitives. So they leave Coalfields and Return to Canada. Lia quickly finds out, in due part, she’s addicted to cocaine and her new friend Sawyer. However she declares that Sawyer doesn’t love her, in fact, he’s just obsessed with slaying the dragon, Jack detesting his high profile celebrity-like status. Because of this she declares he must ‘prove his love for her,’. Sawyer soon becomes obsessed with proving his love for her. And Lia soon after finds out she’s pregnant. With Jack or Danny's baby. Judy, monitoring the situation from a far, declares it has now gone too far. To keep the partnership alive with Jack, Judy corners her brother and declares the relationship between Lia and he must end. And Danny, in a fit of rage, kills Judy, to cement his love for Lia. Danny is backed into a corner. Danny immediately drives to Lia’s home, covered in blood, admits he killed his sister over their relationship, and that they must leave Coalfields. And Lia is ecstatic, as every man in her life has loved her, adored her, obsessed over her. Every man except one. And that drives Lia nuts. Lia takes the opportunity to swoon Danny some more, agreeing to help hide the body and then help escape Coalfields together, but they have to stop at a special place first. Like a dog following his master, Danny does as he’s told. They clean up the body, and Lia walks Danny into the barn; locking him like a trapped prey waiting for the predator. Lia attempts to hide Danny in the barn for a while, like a pet. But when the weather changes and the news of Judy and Dannys disappearance become more and more worrisome; Lia decides it’s now or never. She drags Jack to the Barn. The grand reveal has Danny, in chains, standing before Jack taunting him. Starved for days and suffering, Danny wishes it all to end. He admits to murdering Judy, to fucking Lia, and Lia, utilizes tihs moment to consummate their relationship further–with vows that extend beyond “I do,” Lia declares an ultimatum : Danny killed your business partner in cold blood. Now take revenge on Danny for Killing Judy, and prove to me, that you’re no better nor worse than I am, and hack Danny to death with this blunt, rusted axe; or, I will kill myself along with our baby right here in this barn, right now. Jack falls to the pressure, and swings many times until Danny dies a bloody, rough, death. Lia, obsessed and excited over the corpse, drops the rifle and jumps into Jack's arms, declaring “ “I didn’t know what you would do. . . But I just hoped, that you’d kill for me, as I’ve killed for you,” Jack takes the moment to then hug Lia, declaring he needs a hug. It’s here he hugs her so tight, declaring his love for her–that she suffocates and passes out. Nick and Rich (a side story) detectives show up at this moment, and pull Jack and Lia back to Canada. The end wraps up nicely, with Lia in an insane asylum, and Jack having dinner with all his coalfield companions with two year old Valentine (he and Lia’s daughter). And Claudia, offers Jack an offer as a constable for the Vancouver Police department. The end. . . for now…