Ariel Barton, the beautiful young director of a Seattle shelter for battered women is in despair. The facility faces closure. When Ariel's wealthy great-uncle dies she learns that in order to inherit his fortune, that would save the shelter, she must by married by her twenty-fifth birthday, which is only seven days away. There is no one to marry. Her only option is to find a man, who for a price, will agree to an-in-name only marriage.