Lauren Reynolds is a woman who knows what she wants...or at least she did, until she met Justin Wilder... With small town Texas in her rear view mirror, Lauren's course included a partnership in the Bostonian law firm, Anderson & Anderson, as well as a marriage with her law professor, Aaron, also a partner in the firm. Slated for the soon to be abdicated principal partner, Mason Anderson's, chair. Lauren appears to have it all; until she meets Justin Wilder. Justin, tantalizingly wealthy, sexy, connected and her ardent admirer, is also employed at Anderson & Anderson as a paralegal preparing for the bar. Lauren's life changes when she realized Mason Anderson was not yet ready to throw in his very large towel. Corrupt, connected and corpulent, Mason's life was inadvertently thrust into Lauren's confused hands when her prominent client, Alvin Bartley, commits suicide under questionable conditions...