Heather Holmann has been diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer, and there's no hope. The disease will kill her, but she is determined to control the remainder of her life. Not wanting her sons to see her wither away, she decides to hire a hit man. Riley McCoy is a DEA agent working deep undercover. Heather overhears him talking about his job and concludes that he's the man for the job.
Worried that Heather will blow his cover, Riley agrees to meet with her. When he learns of her situation, he agrees to the job; he watched his own mother die from cancer, after all, and he knows the pain that Heather is facing. Even so, the more he gets to know her, the more he realizes he loves her.
Meanwhile, Jasmine Sato-a crooked FBI agent desperately in love with Riley-threatens to reveal his identity to the mafi a unless he gives in to her desires. To prove her point, Jasmine blows the covers of several agents, in her obsessive quest for Riley's heart.