Sam Conrad has had enough when his father demands that he manage the inheritance of his ex-fiancée. He leaves town on a quest for direction. Sam didn’t expect to be thrown together with his new mentor’s eccentric daughter. Storm damage forces lonely romance writer Elinor Bosarge and her hairless cat, Mr. Darcy, out of her beach cottage. She plans to take refuge on her parents’ estate but finds one of her father’s “projects” staying there.