When the strapping young Marine returns to Cedar Hollow, showing up one day at the coffee shop she now owns and runs, Lacy has to decide whether or not to let him back into her life. And when, and how, to tell him the truth about all that transpired while he was gone. Can it all be water under the bridge? Or has too much happened for them to have a chance?
Julian Schultz was looking for small town life when he moved to Cedar Hollow, but he wasn't expecting the way he felt drawn to the school's quiet, serious nurse, Ruby. She seems intent on keeping their acquaintance purely professional, citing their age difference, the fact that they work together, their quintessentially different lifestyles.
And yet, thanks to life in a small town, their divergent lives seem to keep colliding. As do their lips. How long can they fight the chemistry that obviously lies between them?