When it comes to digging up the dirty facts, Evan Reed is the best in the business. She's a Secret Hunter, a highly paid detective hired during political campaigns to check the backgrounds of candidates. She's also a strong-willed, wayward ex-Catholic trying to raise her fourteen-year-old daughter alone. When she is hired to investigate the past of a morally upright and charismatic senator who could become the next president, the last thing she expects to encounter is murder. Evan's life becomes even more complicated when she meets the senator's wife, who leads a secluded life and hides her own secrets.