With her father jailed and awaiting trial, artist Jessica Parks is finally free to visit her long-institutionalized mother—if she can elude P.I. Sam Fields and overcome her fear that she shares her mother's problems. But Sam sticks, and though not certain she can trust him, Jessica asks him to help her with her scheme. What neither can anticipate is their attraction—or the effect The Homecoming of her mother will have on the rest of the Parks clan.