Mary Ellen Carey, an attorney and newly divorced suburban mom of three, finds her quiet, humdrum life suddenly disrupted by David Anderson, her eighteen-year-old client. By representing his minor criminal case, she is dragged into a world of crime and international intrigue. Gerard Fitzgerald, better known as Fitz, is a Newark policeman, the coach of Mary Ellen's son's soccer team, and a man she finds arrogant and paternalistic. Fitz becomes her unlikely protector when she and her children's lives are threatened. From the leafy suburbs of northern New Jersey to the pristine beaches of North Carolina's Outer Banks to the streets and Port of Newark, New Jersey, Mary Ellen and Fitz are pursued by international gangsters who will stop at nothing. But even with death stalking their tracks, Mary Ellen and Fitz's unexpected mutual attraction becomes impossible to ignore.