Philip Martin, son of the sitting Senator, is an ex-football player who carries himself with an easy grace; his wife Marina, the stylish and elegant director of Phoenix's fine arts museum; and their four-year-old daughter Amabel, beautiful and precocious and beloved. Finn Hunt is working a dull office job when she meets Philip and charms Amabel. She agrees to nanny, thinking she's lucked into the job of a lifetime. Then a woman approaches Finn, claiming a connection with Philip and asking Finn to pass on a message. Now Finn is caught in a web of deceit with the senate seat at its center. And Finn has secrets, too. -- adapted from jacket