Willow Nickel owns a small regional chain of automotive repair shops. He's forty-seven, single, a never-been-married, and fond of a small growing beer belly. Chess Sommer's also an entrepreneur. She owns a boutique lab that formulates cosmetics. She's forty-two, single, a never-been-married, and so busy, her lunch is an energy bar. They meet in the dead of winter, at an airport during a raging snowstorm that shuts down more than half the US. It's one of those thoughts, one of those crazy thoughts, but inside two people whose loneliness has become a character trait, the thought makes an irresistible kind of sense: why not get married?