For as long as he can remember, Lieutenant Mike Benedetto was in love with his best friend Lucy Witter, the shy, sweet and naive nurse. The problem was that she was higher above him, she grew up in a rich class family in Chicago, but she never let that define her. Mike on the other hand grew up in a small flat in Manhattan New York, with eight relatives. When the two of them drift after the death of Dominic, he goes to Chicago and sorts things out with her, but when he finds out her family is setting her up to be engaged to the rich and wealthy, Anthony Frost, Mike is heartbroken and so is she, and has the lost the happiness that she had. Will she ever gain her spirit back or be with Anthony? And will Mike work his way to make sure he gets his sweet, darling Lucy?