Christopher Corbett is a thirty-eight-year-old senior partner in his father's law firm. Christopher seldom practices law on an attorney-client basis. His interaction with the law comes as a cold-blooded methodical killer trained by, and working for the government. As a misanthropic, confirmed bachelor, his personal life is neat and orderly, until he encounters his sister-in-law's best friend and his precise ordered existence is rocked.

Abandoned as a child, Villia Candia Leon is thirty-six-years old. Cynical and pragmatic, she is unable or unwilling to love or be loved. When Christopher Corbett erupts into her life, the true meaning of never say never shatters her peace of mind, and decimates her status as a card-carrying member of cynicism.

Mentally kicking and screaming, unforeseen circumstances draw these two together in a relationship desperate for commitment that neither will concede. Neither believes they possess the ability to love; both believe the emotion doesn't exist. Yet despite their skepticism, they spend passionate days and nights together until Christopher returns to his assignment.

Separated, secrecy sows plausible seeds of doubt, pregnancy binds them together, but their stalwart cynicism has a firm hand in keeping them apart. Nevertheless, Vi becomes an unwitting pawn thrust into the midst of Christopher's undercover operation, which leads her to the discovery of her parents, and that knowledge puts her life in jeopardy.