When her domineering fiancé cheats on her, pastry chef Kate Sweet trades the city for her hometown of Barnesville and works as a waitress in her parents' diner. Lonely and insecure, she tries to start over but instead runs into Michael Hart, the boyfriend who sent her away after he was paralyzed in a tractor accident. All her old feelings for him return in full, but Michael is just about to get married to someone else—her old rival for everything back in their school days. Michael is drawn to Kate again but resents that she left him. He doesn't remember how pain and painkillers changed his behavior and made him so sorry for himself he literally ordered her to go. Now she must decide whose happiness is more important, his, now that he has a fiancée, or hers...with him. How can it be both?