Spoon thinks no woman can hold his interest until he meets a woman he'd passed by many times. Spoon feels the weight of bachelorhood settle heavily on his shoulders until he stumbles across an author at a book signing, a woman he'd walked by dozens of times and never truly seen before. Riley is a part-time romance writer who never expects to find a man to live up to the heroes in her books. Instead, she pushes through life on her own terms, happily single. Just when they start to develop feelings for each other, fragmented family relationships come to a head and danger lurks right around the corner, threatening to end not only their budding relationship, but their lives as well. Will they conquer the challenges and come together in love or will events out of their control tear them apart forever?