Lee Stone, Stoner to her friends, is on a personal mission to protect the environment, address climate change, and do it starting right there in her home state of Texas. With a master’s degree in environmental policy, she’s the communications director for the woman-led electric car company, Lise Motors, in the capital city of Austin. Her current project is to get a significant environmental bill passed through the state senate in the upcoming legislative session. With a progressive Republican governor in office who strongly supports the bill, the timing couldn’t be better. The governor has even hired a new staffer specifically to champion the bill and be the liaison between Lee and his administration.

Ben Laderman, formerly a corporate attorney for Google, has returned to his home state of Texas to accept his dream job as a special assistant to Governor Grover Mane. Ben, a Democrat, is elated to join his staff and work from the inside to turn Texas blue. His first assignment is to work with Lise Motors’ communications director to campaign for the support of the governor’s pet legislation, the environmental bill known as “The Green Machine.” There’s just one catch: Lee Stone is his former girlfriend: the one that cheated on him with his law school rival, broke his heart, and set him running to California to escape his grief and heartbreak.