Ria Phillips has a plan. Stay strong. Stay busy. Stay focused on what's important. And don't start daydreaming again about a certain pair of soulful brown eyes. No, it won't be easy. Jacob Worth was her first love. Her first time. Her first everything. Until he left town one day without explanation. He broke her heart back then, but she's not a teenager with a crush anymore. She's an adult—with a plan. In the past eight years, Ria has built a good life for herself in her small hometown. She and her friends have used their creativity and business savvy to turn the little florist shop she inherited into an astonishing success. She's got more than enough in her life to be proud of, and she's going to make sure Jacob sees that. She's not going to let him rattle her. She's not going to watch him from afar, even if he's even hotter than before. And she's definitely not going to fall into bed with him. Or, if she accidentally slips up, it will only be once. She learned her lesson a long time ago, and she's not going to fall for Jacob again.

After the ending of a long-term relationship that brought her nothing but stress and tears, Madeline Jenkins is ready to have some fun. Do something wild. Spontaneous. Maybe a little risky. In other words, she wants to be nothing like her regular quiet self. Not forever. She likes herself. But she wants to try something new—just for a little while. What better way to have some fun than to fall into an ill-advised, no-strings-attached fling with a very hot man. True, Ken isn't an ideal rebound guy. He's the sheriff, he's ten years older than her, and she's known him for years. They have nothing in common except an intense attraction that seems to come out of nowhere. But that makes it easier. Ken is just her rebound. And no matter how good he makes her feel about herself, it's not like they'll ever want each other for real.

As the youngest of her large family, Skye Devereaux has tried to be taken seriously all her life. Despite her age and her successful career, her family and half her small town still treat her like a little girl. She's been in love with Matthew Jenkins, her brother's best friend, since she was twelve years old, and he still thinks about her like a little girl too. She's tired of it. She's had enough. She's going to prove to Matthew and to the rest of the world—and maybe also to herself—that she deserves more than being patted on the head. A high school reunion that brings Matthew back to town is the perfect opportunity to show him she's all grown up. She just needs to figure out how.

All her life, Belinda Phillips has been hard-working. Reliable. Organized. Kind of bossy. She's always been good at getting things done—everything except relationships. Maybe it's just the holiday season turning her thoughts to romance, but she's discovered that's what she wants. A relationship. With a man. In particular with a cute new guy in town. And despite an abundance of work and life skills, she has no idea how to go about getting him to ask her out. So she turns to her sister and friends for help. Unfortunately their help brings her private mission to the attention of the most obnoxious man in the world. Fitz might have had a family and career in his former life, but he gave all that up long ago to make deliveries for the flower shop and otherwise lounge around doing nothing. He's unkempt and bearded and grumpy and reclusive. He has no ambition for anything except snide comments and getting in her way. Belinda doesn't like him. At all. In fact, she can barely tolerate him. Which is why it's so confusing that she can't stop thinking about him—and wondering what might be revealed if Fitz could ever shed all his protective layers.