When her ex-husband turns up dead, Alison Bergeron, a professor at an upstate New York college, teams up with her on-again, off-again lover, married NYPD Homicide Detective Bobby Crawford, to prove that the killing is linked to a local mob boss.

St. Thomas the college north of New York where Alison Bergeron teaches has had its share of scandals so when a Resident Director goes missing they keep it quiet by tapping Alison as a replacement. A stay in the dorms is like hard time and she will do anything to avoid it. Her way out: find the reluctant RD and drag him back. Luckily she doesn't have to look further than the drugs he's hidden to get her boyfriend Detective Bobby Crawford on the case....