The long dark stint of widowed single parenting is about to dawn new light for Kate. Her son Tom is graduating. It takes a village. Thank goodness for David, her dead husband's best friend. He made the years easier along with BFF Zelda, heiress to the Smith Foundation, who always supported her. Kate thinks it might even be time to date again having her eye on Nathan Hammer, successful attorney and widowed single dad, a promising candidate. But when Tom is attacked, Kate stops at nothing to discover who is responsible. David is not a stranger to sacrifice or secrets. A State Senator, now running for a US Senate seat, he can't tell Kate that his backer is the Forseti Group, a covert society he and her late husband belonged to. But Tom's injuries lead David to break ironclad rules and shadows from the past intensify the storm. Suddenly, Kate has more men in her life than she bargained for and the impact may be life threatening.