If thereβs one point that Jamie McClintock and Nate
Goddard can agree upon, itβs that love is overrated. Jamie
doesnβt have time for it. Nate doesnβt need it. And they
certainly donβt want it from each other.
Jamie, a
struggling free-spirited artist, is a devoted single
mother who hasnβt been in a serious relationship since her
boyfriend abandoned her after their son was born. Nate, a
charismatic jet-setting salesman, is widowed and estranged
from his father and five-year-old son, Christopher. Jamie
would rather glue glitter to pinecones than go out on a
date. Nate spends most of his nights wooing his clients.
Then one afternoon Nateβs father drops dead of a heart
attack. In that moment, their highly guarded worlds
collide.
When Nate shows up at his childhood home
to settle the estate and reclaim his son, he discovers
that Jamie has been living in the Connecticut farmhouse as
his fatherβs roommate. Mistrustful of each otherβs
motives, Nate and Jamie bicker about everything from
childrenβs nicknames to Jamieβs fashion choices to Nateβs
home renovation methods. It doesnβt help that Christopher
prefers Jamie to his absentee father.
But after
the funeral, Nate and Jamie begin to see each other in a
more forgiving light. Nate, traveling to sales conferences
all over the country with a sullen Christopher in tow,
learns he canβt breeze his way through single parenthood.
Jamie, who has moved back in with her sister, wonders at
the wisdom of her unconventional choices as a woman with a
child to support. And both begin to realize they donβt
know as much about love as they thought. Still wounded by
past heartbreak and sorrow, can they learn to trust each
other and open their hearts?
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