Magnolia "Mack" Bishop is determined to secure Charleston's prestigious Historic Preservation Design Fellowship, the apple of every local designer's eye. But when the final house tour is undone by a host of calamities, Mack's shot at the fellowship goes up in flames. Just when Mack finds her professional footing, she spots a familiar figure unloading his moving truck into the newly sold house next door. She is furious, floored, and regrettably flustered because Lincoln Kelly is the one who got away. Fifteen years earlier he was a summer romance she inadvertently fell in love with, and when he left, following his dreams to New York, Mack was broken-hearted.