Carrie took in her brotherβs daughter Molly after he died in an accident, despite the reservations of the little girlβs 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 Mollyβs 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 grandmotherβs worries about a single woman like herself adopting Molly. After all, itβs not like sheβll ever see him again. Except that, a few days later, she runs into him again at the worst possible time!