Imani Maxwell is a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park on her way to tenure at her alma mater. She is very compassionate about African-American literature, which is seen in her teachings and her interactions with her students. However, her love life is not fairing as well as her career endeavors. Her relationship with her brother"s best friend is going no where, and she doesn"t know exactly how to end it. When she meets FBI Agent Garrison Wade after one of her students is kidnapped, she begins to question her ability to follow the mandate of her deceased father, which was to not get involved with an FBI Agent.