The year is 1960. Life is comfortable for Maeve Noland, pampered wife of the president of the Boston longshoremen's union. Her daughter and son have begun to forge independent lives and she anticipates spending more time alone with her husband-still the most attractive man she's ever known. Her husband dies suddenly. When a disturbing claimant to his estate appears, Maeve risks personal and financial ruin to salvage her children's inheritance and...