If returning home without a job wasn't bad enough, learning her arch-nemesis and brother's best friend, Dax Moore, is the cover model for the town's calendar certainly was. Determined to protect her heart from the very man who broke it, Ellen Jordan vows to keep her distance. However, the longer she remains, the harder it becomes for her to remember why she stayed away. For six years, Dax worked hard to forget sleeping with his best friend's sister, going so far as to earn the moniker Hometown Heartbreaker-the town's most eligible bachelor. Ellen certainly made his quest much easier by rarely visiting. Only, now that she's back, he realizes she's the one he shouldn't have and the only one he wants.