Maggie Angel accepts a chance of a lifetime when her aunt offers her the family’s dilapidated Bayou Cottage in the swamp at Cypress Cove. It’s the perfect place to run away to after her heart was broken. The first night while she’s down at the road to lock the gate, a hunky guy on horseback steps out of the woods, but Maggie doesn’t recognize him. Turns out they were childhood playmates long ago during winter visits to her grandparents’ cottage. Justin Chastain, local vet and wild horse advocate, heard through the grapevine that Maggie had returned to Cypress Cove and wanted to see her for himself. But he didn’t know that she was hiding from a failed marriage, leaving her with a big chip on her shoulder. It remains to be seen if she can ever trust again. The chemistry Maggie senses fluctuates between lukewarm and molten, but for Justin, it’s constant and he’s falling in love, hard. Then he unintentionally commits a blunder that Maggie will struggle to forgive, and they have to start all over again. Is there another chance at love for Maggie Angel?

Bayou Cottage is getting a reputation for being a place where couples fall in love. When Maggie Angel’s friend Katrina, visits Cypress Cove during Mardi Gras, her intention is to get a little R & R. But a fisherman’s boat runs aground near Maggie’s dock and his presence changes everything for Katrina when romance is added to that rest and relaxation.

An accidental encounter with Sheriff Dave Chastain piques more than Katrina Blanchard’s interest as chemistry and magnetism shoots the passion quotient into the danger zone. She’d left Pensacola, following Maggie Angel to Cypress Cove. Life was falling into place for Katrina Blanchard. A promising relationship that had deflated into the comfort of an old shoe seemed like enough for her. At the pinnacle of her career, the travel it required was just enough excitement. She’d found an old Creole Cottage to restore which filled the rest of the void. Happenstance meetings with Dave grow from admiration to love. As they settle into the enchanted cottage together, the universe has more in store for Katrina and Dave than they could have ever imagined.