Thomas Sanders is an executive at a high-tech company in Seattle His new boss is Meredith Johnson, with whom he had an affair twelve years before On her first day in charge she makes a pass at him now married, he rebuffs her Next day his world collapses she has accused him of sexually harassing her and asked for his transfer from the company He stands to lose both money and respect and, sure that there is a hidden agenda behind the accusations, he sets out to clear his name