When popular New York City Mayor Douglas Brennan is tapped to be the next junior senator from New York, Elle, his wife of twenty years, suddenly finds herself going from life in a fishbowl to life under an electron microscope. Doug is a member of the Brennans, an American political dynasty that has its share of detractors and, in spite of his popularity with his constituents, Doug has made some enemies who are looking for anything that can derail his ride to Washington. When a secret alliance is discovered between his married younger brother, Rory, and an African-American woman, Rory's estranged wife files for divorce and cites Elle as the other woman. The media turns it into a modern Cain and Abel story, with Elle stuck in the middle. Soon she finds her twenty-year marriage in choppy waters just as she makes what should be a happy discovery. Can she and Doug weather the political storm and continue sailing to happiness, or will her brother-in-law's secret destroy them?