A brilliant crossword puzzle editor (Chabert) finds her life turned upside-down when she is pulled into a police investigation after several of the clues in her recent puzzles are linked to unsolved crimes. Proving her innocence means leaving the comfort of her sheltered world and working with a tough police detective (Elliott), puzzling through clues together in order to crack the case, as the two are fish out of water in each other's worlds.

Set in a military academy, an army veteran is brought in to take over as commandant. Once there he meets a new age thinking Dean of Academics and they instantly don't like each other. But to save the academy they agree to work together and from that point everything changes. Can they work together to save the school? Do they truly have feelings for one another or is it just circumstance?