Lisa Bennett, now a retired applelate court judge from Illinois, returns home to her parents house in Savannah, Georgia. She wants a new life and hopefully a life with someone in it with her. She's spent her career alone in Chicago trying cases and shortchanging her life, giving the law every ounce she had to offer. Now she wants something more than the law. Her arrival home brings violent acts against her and her her property. Someone doesn't want her in her family home. Detective Brian Donahue is sent to investigate these attempts. They work together and discover Lisa isn't the only one that is or has been living in her family home. Lisa and Brian discover they have more in commong than her attacks and soon become more than detective and victim.