Cautious Heart — Cheris F. Hodges / Cheris Hodges

Caprice Johnson is a highly respected detective. She's one of the few women in the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department's elite Vice/Narcotics unit. But it wasn't always that way. When Caprice lived in Chicago, she was a police officer on the fast track with the Chicago Police Department, but she was also in love with the man she thought she was going to marry, Damien King. But Damien's wandering eye and lack of self-control sent Caprice flying out of the Midwest forever. Determined to protect her heart and her emotions from the pain, Caprice stops dating and refuses to let anyone get close to her.

Inspector Nathan Wallace fell in love with Caprice while working side by side with her as a partner. When he gets promoted to the department's internal affairs division, he reveals his feelings to Caprice. Nathan tries to break down the wall she's built around herself. But every time he gets close to her, she pulls away. The harder he pursues her, the harder she fights him. As time goes on, Caprice begins to warm to Nathan and a relationship buds. Just when it seems things couldn't get any better for Caprice professionally and personally, she makes a huge drug bust that changes her life. She takes down a major drug dealer Donovan Harris who vows to ruin Caprice's career and reputation so that she can't testify against him. With her career and life on the line, Caprice has to rely on Nathan and the truth to survive.