Washington, D.C., activist Samantha Montgomery faces the controversy of a lifetime when she agrees to help handsome civil rights attorney Chad Rushmore take on a landmark police-brutality case.

Not only does their sudden, fiery attraction endanger the already troubled lawsuit, but it puts Samantha at heartbreaking odds with her attorney sister, Simone.

With both family and a cause at stake, Samantha must walk a dangerous line between passion and loyalty, duty and desire… to discover the most fulfilling love of all.