Lavender Young left New York after being fired from Lush Magazine. She returns to the only home she knows – Lake Lure, North Carolina – under false pretenses. No one can know she didn't make it big in the city, so she pretends she's on assignment, photographing her hometown and writing an article about it. To keep up the façade, she gets money from savings to hire a tour guide to update her on what's new in the area. She never imagined that guide would be her ex, Jaysen Adams.

Jaysen always wondered why Lavender left him a year year ago without any explanation. Will he push his anger aside to finally get the answers he so desperately needs?