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AU fic. Dukken is twenty five years old, and the only surviving victim of serial killer Melanie 'Dollmaker' Crow, and scarred mentally and physically from her attempt on his life. Homicide Detective Kelly Beck is forty years old and bitter at life after a messy divorce and scarred emotionally and physically from her battle with breast cancer. With Crow locked away and the case closed, Kelly offers to help out the young man who has lost everything including his home due to his injuries and his long recovery. Then the unexpected happens, as tough Kelly and gentle Dukken grow closer, and it seems they will both heal each other with the love they have found, despite the envy and prejudice they encounter from others towards their age gap relationship.
Sixteen years on, forty-one year old Dukken is a successful artist and happily married to fifty-six year old Kelly, and has put the past behind him. Then Melanie Crow escapes from a psychiatric facility, and the first thing she will do is target Dukken, her only surviving victim - but Melanie doesn't know their story, and has seriously underestimated what Dukken and Kelly will do to stay alive and stay together, no matter what it takes...