Mitchell Edward Warner III, the son of a senator, made a promise to two friends in college: when each of them marries, he has to give up his most precious possession. A decade later, Mitchell has become a reclusive farm boy, and he's become the focus of an article Tori Barnett is writing for her magazine. Why did he escape the political life destined for him? He doesn't know it yet, but this writer might make Mitchell give up more than just his privacy.