TJ Bennett knows one thing for certain--being in love isn't for him. Been there, done that, has the scars to prove it. But that's before he meets colorful, sweet, slightly-kooky Hope Daniels. Hope is only in town temporarily. She simply wants to have a cup of coffee with the father she's never known. That's it. She doesn't need to buy any Father's Day cards or have a date for any Father-Daughter dances. She just wants to have a conversation with the man who stole her mother's heart twenty six summers ago in Sapphire Falls. But when her directions lead her to TJ's house instead, everything becomes a lot more complicated--and a lot more interesting. Because there's nothing like a big gruff introvert to push this extrovert's let-me-make-it-all-better buttons. All of TJ's plans to stay uninvolved and out of her way evaporate quickly and before he knows it, Hope's got him thinking differently about everything--family, home, heartbreak and maybe, just maybe, the fact that he's never actually been in love¿ before now.