Detective Michael O'Connor is good at what he does. Right now, he wants Kate's suspects brought to justice, as they're part of a bigger case. He's delighted that Kate is cooperative, at least until he learns that she's pregnant and that he's beginning to care more than he should. Naturally, he fights any attraction. What else could a recently divorced single male not looking to repeat his mistakes do? Especially when he's protecting the witness. But when Kate makes him aware that she would be delighted to become more closely acquainted, he agrees, even if it is on her terms of no future, just the present. When Michael is given a false lead and Kate is threatened, he realizes that there is no future as he envisions it, without Kate.

While the first half of the book has a lot of dialogue that tends to put you in mind of squabbling children, Ms. Stewart makes up for it in the second half of the book. The ending to A Limited Partnership leads to a quite satisfactory "ahhhhhh..." moment.