Melanie 'Mel' Taylor was ready for her new life with her young son. Newly divorced after twelve years, she wants to discover who she really is and is eager to start. When Zack Conrad offers to help make sense out of the mess in her apartment, she's a little surprised at the attraction she feels. After all, she's a thirty-one-year-old mother and he's a twenty-two-year-old college student. Mel is determined to resist his charms, but soon attraction bubbles into passion and there's suddenly no going back. But her fear of getting hurt and a little meddling from her mother doom the relationship just as it starts. Mel's forced to decide between doing what is safe or risking it all for perhaps the greatest love of her life.