A selfish old woman finds her calling late in life. A father hears his son's prayer wish. A blackmailer has a perfect setup for her business at her beauty shop. A distasteful marriage ends like neither party could foresee. A professional woman shuns a wage earner, but rethinks her evaluation of him. A new widow handles her loss completely different than her friends thought. A man must convince his doctor to see him as more than her patient. A bum gives thanks for his many blessings. A veterinarian helps a young woman who loses a beloved pet. An architect has trouble designing a new building...

An anonymous woman appears at the restaurant back door of a truck stop late at night. She was beaten senseless and hardly vertical, but she still asks for a job. The owner doesn't know who she is, where she came from, and cannot understand why she is so fearful of relating any history about herself. Tom is quickly attracted to the woman he calls "Missy" and shelters her. He soon understands she is in an impossible predicament and calls on his local sheriff to help him solve this riddle. They are plunged into a frightening situation of corruption at the highest level of law enforcement -...