DAUNTLESS

A fireball of fun with her long, curly, orange and yellow tresses, Kyra Hainesley operates a dance studio along the North Pacific Coast, content for the most part with her simple, carefree life. The search for a perfect man, however, has left the twenty-three-year-old single and still living at home with her widowed mom. A  second frustration revolves around the mystery of Kyra's distant family. She's never met them, and Mrs. Hainesley forbids any attempt to make contact.

When a dashing theater actor visits a mutual friend, he sweeps Kyra off her feet, drawing the dancer into an international affair. The romance plays like a fairy tale, too good to believe, a worry confirmed when a trans-Atlantic rendezvous comes to a puzzling, unexpected end.

Separated from the stage performer for weeks, Kyra infiltrates a foreign embassy to send her missing lover a message, yet he fails to respond. The despair of a severed relationship crushes her, driving Kyra to adopt a cold-hearted mindset to protect herself from future vulnerability. After resuming her small-town-girl existence, a violent attack leaves Kyra gravely wounded and inflicts collateral damage upon her loved ones. She blames herself for their suffering.

Guilt consumes the ballerina, leading Kyra to second guess the choices that position her, on several occasions, in the wrong place at the wrong time. Hiding in a far-away locale to evade mortal danger, she struggles to find a purpose for living and questions her responsibility for destroying the lives of those left behind.