Breaking up with devastatingly handsome Jake Manning, sassy twenty-seven-year-old redhead Sandy Burke heads to Washington, DC, where she takes the job of director of New Horizons, a nonprofit organization benefiting women in poverty. The interference of a pesky lawyer and his attempts to reverse zoning approval for a New Horizons' building project seem insurmountable -- until, in a twist of fate, Sandy discovers the lawyer happens to be none other than her nemesis, Jake Manning!