Jillian Keller took the long route to her best life, but is now happily settled in her hometown of Smile, raising her little girl alone while helping run Get Lost Lodge. A lover of structure and routine, she doesn't need anything, or anyone, disrupting her carefully curated life.
After achieving his culinary dreams, Levi Bright realizes he's still missing something he can't find in a big city. Returning home to Smile, he intends to build a different future for himself that includes mending fences with his dad, reconnecting with friends, and creating elevated comfort food for a town he loves.
When Levi and Jilly run into each other one day in Smile, once requited feelings that never had a chance to bloom as teens flare between them. Jaded from her past, Jilly is cautious and convinced that she can handle being just friends, until her brother hires sweet, funny, ridiculously hot Levi as the new chef at the lodge, and the two have to work closely together to prepare for Get Lost's official summer opening. The more time they spend together, camping, laughing, kayaking, and reminiscing, the more Jilly, and her daughter Ollie, start to get more attached to Levi. But Jilly has been hurt before, and things are moving quicker than she anticipated. If she wants to be head over hills in love, she'll have to learn that the past doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes, it just leads you where you're meant to be.
