A very successful psychiatrist is thrown in turmoil when a 15-year-old patient commits suicide in his office. He is also suffering a midlife crisis and he is being forced to reevaluate his entire life.

To those that know her, Mary Shannon is a glorified meter maid, but her real job as a federal marshal is to oversee federal witnesses who have been relocated to Albuquerque through the program. She has to balance her job as a marshal and the secret identity she must use to hide her high-risk, high-impact job from her family.

Angela Chase is a teenage girl who struggles with the problems of growing up, high school, and family life.