Dutch van den Broeck is a detective in the Washington D.C. police department who meets Congresswoman Kay Chandler when both his wife and her husband are killed in a plane crash.
The tragedy is compounded when the investigation uncovers shocking information about their spouses' relationship.
The newly-revealed facts that they sat side by side with "Mr and Mrs" tickets and identical hotel keys in their pockets brings together the otherwise incompatible pair of survivors to sort out their painful feelings.
They are from dissimilar backgrounds and of contradictory temperaments, but out of the ruins of their shattered marriages, these random hearts tentatively form a volatile new union.