Police Sergeant Eddy Thorne is killed in the line of duty. In a letter for his widow, Royce, he asks her to give a large sum of money he had saved to his adult son, Palm, born of an affair with their beautiful neighbor, Lily Woodstone. Lily disappeared when the boy was a year old. Six months after Eddy's death, a woman is murdered and Palm is charged and arrested. Though Police Chief Jared Granite warns Royce to stay away from the investigation, she is certain Palm is innocent and she must clear him because he is part of her husband. Hindered by a fake FBI agent, an ambitious investigative reporter, and a scheming tv show host and her sister - who all have secrets - Royce helps catch the killer and finds the family she always wanted.