Fired from her job as an investigative reporter, Alli Gardner has something to prove. Finding out who's behind an illegal baby-adoption ring might just be the way to do it — her once-in-a-lifetime scoop. She can't do it alone, so for help she goes to Kevin Vickers, the crack private investigator with an unblemished reputation, who's always made it his business to rub her the wrong way.

The evidence in the baby-scheme case soon points clearly to the perpetrators.

That's the easy part for Alli.

How should she handle the evidence of what's between her and Kevin?