Katherine Sweet leaves her job as a pastry chef and pauses her cake decorating business in order to babysit the family pasta factory in MacLeod's Cove. Not an ideal situation. When she's roped into attending a charity auction, she accidentally buys the guy who'd starred in her high school fantasies. Except now he's all grown up and delicious. He's also smart and loving and he has a puppy! Darn it, she doesn't have time for kisses in the apple orchard. Not when she has a cake empire to launch. She needs to return to the big city and pretend this slice of happily-ever-after never happened.

Mark Drysdale loves being a volunteer firefighter in his hometown and helping to run a horse rescue shelter. He never thought he'd be bought by the woman who still takes his breath away after all these years. Their failed date is followed by one minor disaster after another. Doesn't matter. He's falling in love and won't give up. But Katherine is being pulled in too many directions and he's losing the tug-of-war.