Tanner Gray is a happy-go-lucky kind of guy who loves everyone he meets and is happy they seem to love him too. Especially the ladies. He doesn't like strings or ties or anything that keeps him in one place. But when he comes for a visit in a town he had a hell of a good time, he is shocked by what he finds. Tillie Byrd hates the man who left her best friend pregnant and broken-hearted. When her best friend dies—she swears it's from a broken heart no matter what the doctors say—she promises she’ll find him to let him know the son he abandoned needs his father. Too bad once she meets him, she can see exactly why her best friend loved him and why she couldn’t get over him—because she knows she won’t be able to get over him either.