Mitch Ringer almost quits the Fall Creek Police Force when his younger brother is murdered. He despises, Kay, his brother's former girlfriend, whose affair with their superior officer motivated the murder. But since he is contemplating marriage Mitch stays. Later Kay reveals that Mitch's brother fathered the baby she was carrying when he was killed and Mitch defends Kay and her son when the murderer escapes prison and comes after them. His own law enforcement career is cut short when Mitch himself is shot while on duty. After his forced retirement, Mitch and his unhappy wife open a cafe and when it prospers, she leaves him. Almost killed again when a statuesque redhead enters Mitch's life, he narrowly escapes a third time in saving the husband of the woman his brother loved.