Emery Hayden does her best to avoid Fletcher Carlisle forty hours every single week. It wasn't enough that the man stood her up on a blind date when they were in college, but then he had to go and get a job at her place of employment. As long as she doesn't have to see him or speak to him, things are fine. When an opportunity for her to perform a good deed arises, she takes it. Which is when the real trouble begins.

Fletcher Carlisle knows he's taking a chance volunteering for a committee, but he has aspirations of climbing the corporate ladder, and this seems like a good way to be noticed by the powers that be. What he doesn't realize until it's too late is that he'll be working with Emery Hayden. Meaning his past has returned to haunt him.