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...