When lovely, bright Faith Jarvis arrived in Washington to begin a glamorous new job, she had little idea of what was in store for her.

She found her older brother married to a jealous, vicious socialite - his career in terrible danger. She found a famous senator menaced by an espionage plot threatening the entire country. And, to make matters worse, she found herself hopelessly in love for the first time - with a man who belonged to another woman.