After five years spent proving his innocence in a gambling scheme, Jimmy Doyle Walker is back on the field for the Washington Diplomats. Given one season to demonstrate he can still contribute to the team, he guards his secrets well knowing exposure of his unorthodox sex life would create a career-ending scandal. When he meets Evelyn Gardner, he risks everything to show her the delights to be found in his arms. Living day-to-day as a switchboard operator, Evelyn Gardner loathes the sexual cravings that cost her the home and family she'd always dreamed of. When she meets Jimmy Doyle Walker, the sexy first baseman for the Washington Diplomats, at a church revival meeting and he begins to seduce her through erotic letters and sensual gifts, she dares to believe in a future with him until her past catches up with her and threatens to destroy them both.