Melis given some unexpected news as she gets ready for her senate campaign. Ryder learns where the Navy is sending him. Lennox and Zander both receive wake-up calls after they survive a serious car crash.
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.