Carrie took in her brotherโs daughter Molly after he died in an accident, despite the reservations of the little girlโs grandmother. Later Carrie meets a lawyer named Max on a plane as she comes home from a business trip. Carrie is taken aback by how charming he is, and she enjoys her fleeting conversation with him. When Mollyโs grandmother sees Carrie get out of the same taxi as Max, though, Carrie ends up fibbing. She says that Max is her fianc? in order to ease the grandmotherโs worries about a single woman like herself adopting Molly. After all, itโs not like sheโll ever see him again. Except that, a few days later, she runs into him again at the worst possible time!