When state officer Kenna Jenkins gets brought down to southern Illinois to help solve the murder case of a young college student, she finds herself tangled up with a local drug ring. Jared Keppler, a state police officer, teams up with Kenna in helping to solve this twisted murder case. Jared is the only person that she feels she can trust while he is falling madly in love with her beauty and the excitement she has brought into his life. Jared, who has been widowed for two years, didn't think he was capable of falling in love again until she came along.