When reclusive artist Jill Moncrieff's childhood friend Cooper is falsely accused of a crime, she is forced to return to the stifling world of wealth and privilege she escaped years earlier, after the death of her husband. Cooper needs legal advice, and that counsel comes in the form of the best lawyer Jill can find. Hotshot attorney Peter Hathaway is big city, big name and big money--everything Jill rejected years ago. She knows she needs his help, but she isn't prepared to like him. Nor does she expect to start imagining a new kind of life ... one filled with desire, family and love.