Scheming twin sisters attempt to be matchmakers. Their husbands thinking their plans too transparent, develop their own scheme which causes Michael Westin to read a book about a sixteen year old murder and make a startling discovery.

As he attempts to prove the innocence of a man imprisoned fifteen years for murder, his discovery begins a chain of events that will lead from Bar Harbor to the Vice-President's mansion in Washington, D.C. and the disclosure of the secret lives of six people and an unimaginable deception which can never be revealed.