Twenty-nine-year-old Sophie Diehl is a criminal law associate at an old-line New England firm. Everyone at Traynor, Hand knows she abhors face-to-face contact, but with all the big partners away, Sophie must handle the intake interview for the daughter of the firms most important client. After 18 years of marriage, Mayflower descendant Mia Meiklejohn Durkheim has just been served divorce papers, and she is locked and loaded to fight her eminent and ambitious husband, pediatric oncologist Dr. Daniel Durkheim, for custody of their 10-year-old daughter, Jane. Sophie warns Mia that shes never handled a divorce case before, but Mia insists. As she so disarmingly puts it: Its her first divorce, too.