Sheridan Montgomery leads a charmed life as the wife of Eliot, U.S. ambassador to Venezuela. But an attack on their lives cripples Eliot, and they retreat to a remote Mexican village. As Sheridan quietly cares for her husband, she sees her dreams slipping away. Luke Traynor shatters their reverie when he arrives to tell Sheridan of her father s heart attack and the evidence implicating him in a conspiracy. Sheridan returns to Chicago to untangle the web of her father s past and is forced to confront her feelings for Luke, a trail of deceit, and the truth about her marriage."