It is 1951 and Natalia Morrow is ten years old going on twenty. Her world has been turned upside down with the events of 1950 and yet, she has gone boy crazy, She wants to pursue Tobias French, the son of her father's worst enemy but knows that it would be bad for the family.

In Washington, The DOJ is only a few steps from indicting Toffer French and French Industries of unspeakable crimes. At the same time Joe McCarthy and his acolytes wage their war against imagined communists with the help of an unlikely ally: Eddie Hoover, the head of the FBI.

But Hoover is also an ally of those seeking to bring down French Industries, which makes him a contradiction in terms. Inadvertantly, Hoover begind a relationship between Tom Goldman, Kendrick Wells, and the Morrow family that will last decades.