Mel is completely on Joe's side when he's involved in a hit and run, until she discovers the other driver is her beloved hairdresser, Calista.
Meanwhile, Ryder tries to win Stella back with a grand romantic gesture during class much to the frustration of her teacher.
Melissa is a grown-up former wild child of a political family who is now a local politician herself. When her sister ends up in prison and brother-in-law flees after a scandal hits, Mel must take responsibility for her teenaged niece Lennox and pre-adolescent nephew Ryder. Spread too thin to manage by herself, help comes in the unlikely form of Joe who, desperate for a job, moves in and becomes the family's manny.