Belle Taylor's life, the one she's worked for meticulously since before she'd even graduated high school had turned out exactly as she'd hoped. And it exhausted her in ways she'd never even known to expect.
She needs to re-evaluate her future, find a way to do what she loved but still have the time and energy for things other than work. So she heads home for the holidays, where she can rest and get her head together.
Rafe Bettencourt was most assuredly not an item on Belle's to-do list and yet, when her older brother's best friend kissed her under the mistletoe, Belle finds herself with another set of goals to balance what she'd thought she wanted.
Rafe has loved Belle from afar for years and when he runs into her the night she comes back to Davis, he realizes he's done waiting around and it was time to make a move. He's got to help her see she can have a life that includes more than just her job and that she could do it with him at her side.