Determined to put the heartbreak of her boyfriend's rejection behind her, Melanie Sawchuk leaves her home town and takes her first social work job in the big city. Her desire to help people is challenged with her first case when she apprehends an abused baby and quickly learns that the decisions she makes shape her life. Confronted with frightening anonymous threats, she takes a self defence course where she meets and becomes infatuated with the handsome and mysterious Jake Marsden.

Melanie, preoccupied with self esteem issues, ignores her growing doubts about Jake. Her life...