Cole Baird has all the pieces—a ravishing spouse, profitable profession, massive dwelling, nation membership membership and costly toys. Behind the facade, nevertheless, is a person trapped by his environment and falling ever behind within the pursuit of his life's dream. Not sturdy sufficient to confront his father's expectations, he left his real love, his greatest good friend and his imaginative and prescient of life in small city America, and set off on a authorized profession—intent to, in the future, return. Now the rising star in Washington social circles, and the youngest Managing Associate within the historical past of a powerhouse DC legislation agency, he's given the selection—proceed the trail of success in a life to which he by no means aspired, or return to the neighborhood that raised him.