Jeff is hired by Jim Ferris, formerly the executive assistant to now deceased Sam Benson and now the executive assistant to Sam's brother Clayton Benson. Jim has felt protective of the wealthy Bensons' interests and feels that Sam's widow, Ann Benson, has gotten herself involved romantically with a fortune hunter calling himself Rick Allen. Furthermore, Sam's seventeen year old daughter, Chris Benson, hates her stepmother, feeling Ann is just a gold-digger who is only out for herself - a belief mirroring that of Clayton, who wants custody of Chris - while she, in turn, is in love with Rick herself. Chris will soon inherit much of the Benson fortune, some when she turns eighteen, some when she turns nineteen, but the bulk of what is deeded to her coming on her thirtieth birthday. Jim wants Jeff to go undercover to find out more about Mr. Allen from the inside with the end goal of getting him out of the Bensons' lives. If Jeff is able to discover the truth about Mr. Allen, he will find that he is indeed a fortune hunter out for the Benson money, albeit a desperate one in that he is in debt to the mob, and has to pay up in a few days which means he has to get a Benson, any Benson, to the altar fast. In the process, Jeff may also learn that some of the interrelationships between the Bensons are not what they appear on the surface, especially important as the investigation turns into one of murder.
—Huggo