Falling for the local hunk, Noelle Brown is surprised when her attention is caught by the man's roguish brother, Jared Dunn, a desperado and big-city lawyer whose unhappy past causes him to have no faith in love.

Cézanne Martin, a Fort Worth cop turned lawyer, wakes up late one night to find a gun in her face--held by Darlene Driskoll, a soon-to-be-convicted crazed murderess and prison escapee. After eluding Driskoll in the course of a harrowing car ride, Cézanne seeks help from the FWPD's star detective, Wolfgang Slash Vaughn. News that Bob Martin, her long-lost dad, has died disrupts her life further when she discovers elderly Aunt Velda squatting in her...