Despite the sexist partners, the useless investigators, and the troublesome clients, "Attorney at Law" was the one title Cassandra Foreman vied her whole life to get. Maybe that's why she takes on a hopeless case: a seventeen year old girl charged with the murder of her unfaithful boyfriend. Cassandra knows she's biting off more than she can chew, but that seems to be the story of her life. So even when she develops irrevocably strong feelings for her client, which is wrong in far too many ways, she resolves that quitting would be the one thing worse than never having gone to law school at all.

All her life, Lilly Carabine has enjoyed her uncontested reputation as an absolute nobody. Her friends have been pushing and pushing her to pursue a relationship with one of her several suitors, but she's never been interested - until now. When she unexpectedly finds herself lost in a high school cooking class her sophomore year, Lilly has all but abandoned ship, until she is assigned to a semester-long baking project with a mysterious junior guy. David just might be the one to entice Lilly into dating, but can she convince her friends and family of his good side when all they can see is his hardened exterior and his suspicious past?