Kat Cherish likes her job and is just fine thank-you-very-much with being single. She is, however, having second thoughts about being handcuffed to a giant Douglas fir, in the rain. Somewhere deep inside, she knows that both her activist nature and her current predicament are rooted in her deeply buried tangle of family secrets that keeps getting messier by the day.

But when her well-meaning best friend makes a phone call that not only jeopardizes her job but also brings her handsome-even-when-dripping-wet first love back into her life, Kat has to choose between fighting for her job and going home to face the consequences of some monumentally bad decisions, most of them her own.

Returning home hoping to set things right for her disastrously rebellious kid sister, Kat finds that nothing is as it seems... except also-handsome-when-dry Evan Jerry, who may possibly be the only man capable of winning her heart... if she can let herself grab the second chance life has dangled in front of her.