Every man feels the need to be a hero for the woman he loves, while every woman holds a hidden desire for a knight in shining armor to sweep her into a life of true love. After twenty-three years, Colonel James Paul Gordon, a retired air force pilot, is thrust into such a position. His lost love, Samantha Marissen, daughter of one of the country's wealthiest men and recently divorced from an emotionally and physically abusive man, is arrested in an unstable foreign land and charged as a spy in an unwarranted retaliatory act against the United States. Past and present collide as Jim Gordon, a man with no family, lays his life on the line to reunite the family of Ed Marissen, his nemesis.