The popular romantic serial fiction blog continues with an attempted assassination that injures World Affairs Advisor Sharon Wheatly, and President Mark Jerguessen is not happy. But there's little he can do since the last thing he can afford to do is fall in love with Sharon.

But with Sharon getting even closer to his sister, June, who has a relapse of her eating disorder, avoiding a relationship with her boss is getting harder and harder. Still, Sharon and her friend and colleague Karen Tanaka stage an intervention for June, then one of Sharon's friends gets kidnapped, and she and Mark have words over the rescue.

Sharon spots a touching moment between Mark and a woman senator. She has no reason to be jealous, but is anyway. Too bad she and Mark are the targets of one of the biggest conspiracies in Washington, DC: the plot to get Mark and Sharon together.