HENRY MERCUCIO, 30, is lawyer and campaign consultant who ran Congressman Ray McNally’s campaign for Governor of Rhode Island and is the primary consultant for the Providence mayoral election. He is Irish-Italian, from a working family from the affluent Boston suburb of Wellesley, Massachusetts, and is a graduate of Boston College and Georgetown Law School. Henry has traded a promising law career for his passionate love of politics, having served as Congressman McNally’s political advisor during and after law school. He woos the love of his life, Lynsday Sinclair, the heiress of a tobacco fortune from North Carolina, who follows him to Providence, RI, where he runs Congressman McNally’s failed bid for governor. Henry joins McNally at the most prestigious Providence law firm, and when the opportunity arises for the firm’s candidate to assume power in Providence, Henry is recruited to run the campaign. A personal misstep almost derails his meticulously organized campaign plans, but the resolute Henry applies all his talent and tactics to outmaneuver his opponents in a high stakes political game. His unique skill set soon catches the eye of an unsuspecting patron, who introduces Henry to a world even more sinister than the one he retreated from. Despite his sometimes unscrupulous maneuvers, Henry at his core is good and fights for the ideals ingrained in him and which he is committed to preserve.