Samantha West spends her days working at her bookstore with a unique cast of friends, including a flirty barista, a flighty cashier, and a sweet old man who wraps his wife's favorite erotic novels in brown paper bags to take home after his shifts. She is a survivor who has built a safe network around herself. While, her monthly book club lets her express her love of cooking and romance novels. Books are the closest she can get to experiencing a love-life of her own as the scars of her past have made it difficult for her to trust men. A trip to the local grocer’s shakes up Sam’s routine. She meets the mysterious Beau Winchester, a striking man with an odd habit of disappearing just when Sam thinks she might want to get to know the man who’s always concealing his face behind the bill of a faded baseball cap. Beau cannot seem to stay away from Sam for long, her sassy attitude and curvaceous figure tempt him. Their budding relationship must now survive lies, deceit, and scandal. If not, their past might end up burying them.