Martha Shoebridge has the best job in the world: she helps women give birth. But when this workaholic obstetrician meets the handsome senator from Delaware, William Sheridan, her heart leaps... and her life is changed forever, for the world she enters then is without mercy. Political ambitions trump all; everyone lies, everyone tries to manipulate someone, everyone schemes. So begins the slow descent into hell that will eventually put her in XIII's path...
