For Kaci Brewer, there could be little more humiliating than returning to her hometown, Ashwood Hills, after six years away. Well, except, perhaps, for being at a Halloween party three-and-a-half hours longer than she is supposed to be because her sister abandoned her. Oh, and having her ex-boyfriend—who broke her heart at their senior partywalk in, leaving her with no place to hide.

Forrest Reed is a devastatingly handsome cowboy who's been in Ashwood Hills all his life. He's rough and hardworking and the man who never left Kaci's heart. Apparently, she never left his, either, if the drink he's just passed her way and the apology he's just blurted out are anything to go by.

Can his apology, a dance, and the renewal of a years-old promise rekindle everything they once had and bring the two of them back together? Or has too much happened in the last six years to move past? Will they remain lonely and apart?